Idea for development - library floor plan on OPAC
Hi all I would like to imagine a feature for Koha's OPAC, where the customer can click on a 'Where is it?" button for any title that is available on shelf, and be presented with a library plan showing the section where the item should be. For instance, if the person looked up Pride & Prejudice, and the library has a copy in their Classics section, on the lower floor at the end of the Fiction shelving, the plan would show the shelving layout with the appropriate shelf area highlighted. This would of course require some work from each library to create the shelf layout, and then link it to categories or call number ranges in Koha. Just an idea, would this be hard to do, and is there interest out there? Agnes -- Agnes Rivers-Moore Assistant Librarian Hanover Public Library
There is an enhancement request for this: http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=737 Also there is a library that did this with their Koha system ages ago -- not sure what version they were using. Nicole On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Agnes Rivers-Moore <arm@hanover.ca> wrote:
Hi all
I would like to imagine a feature for Koha's OPAC, where the customer can click on a 'Where is it?" button for any title that is available on shelf, and be presented with a library plan showing the section where the item should be. For instance, if the person looked up Pride & Prejudice, and the library has a copy in their Classics section, on the lower floor at the end of the Fiction shelving, the plan would show the shelving layout with the appropriate shelf area highlighted.
This would of course require some work from each library to create the shelf layout, and then link it to categories or call number ranges in Koha.
Just an idea, would this be hard to do, and is there interest out there?
Agnes
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Agnes Rivers-Moore Assistant Librarian Hanover Public Library
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Nicole Engard a écrit :
There is an enhancement request for this: http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=737
Also there is a library that did this with their Koha system ages ago -- not sure what version they were using.
it was NEU Grand Library (Near East University) http://library.neu.edu.tr/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl It is based in Cyprus, and code base seemed to be a kind of Koha-Zoom. (that means 2.2 plus zebra... But it soon forked far away). But it required some new tables and digitization of the library maps ;) -- Henri-Damien LAURENT
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:33 PM, LAURENT Henri-Damien <henridamien.laurent@biblibre.com> wrote:
Nicole Engard a écrit :
There is an enhancement request for this: http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=737
Also there is a library that did this with their Koha system ages ago -- not sure what version they were using.
it was NEU Grand Library (Near East University) http://library.neu.edu.tr/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl It is based in Cyprus, and code base seemed to be a kind of Koha-Zoom. (that means 2.2 plus zebra... But it soon forked far away). But it required some new tables and digitization of the library maps ;)
It says here: http://koha.org/showcase/near-east-university "Unimpressed with the handling of Turkish characters in other major proprietary ILS systems, NEU chose Koha because the open-source ILS gave them the freedom to fine-tune searching and address character encoding issues in-house. The ability to customize Koha has enabled NEU to develop many new features for Koha in-house, including a SMS service where users just send a text message from their mobile phones to renew their books automatically. NEU is a major player in the Koha community, and are devoted to fostering community growth by contributing back their features. Those features will likely be included in Koha version 3.0." I wonder what version they are on atm? Kind Regards, Chris
I just had an image of a cowboy riding behind the herd to bring back any cattle that have wandered off or gotten off course.... On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Chris Nighswonger <snip>.... NEU is a major player in the Koha community, and are devoted to fostering community growth by contributing back their features. Those features will likely be included in Koha version 3.0."
I wonder what version they are on atm?
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Nicole, thanks for the Bugzilla reference. I see no comments since almost a year ago, and no votes for it yet, so I hope to encourage some interest. I was thinking of something that would translate existing library location data (call number, item category, location and branch) from the item, rather than adding extra data as described ("create a new authorized type “maplinks” then allow Koha administrators to put in any content they want"). Call number may be more precise than needed, but I think call number ranges should work, such as Junior Fiction A-J. I have added my thoughts to the "bug", and hope others will add comments and votes. Agnes Nicole Engard wrote:
There is an enhancement request for this: http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=737
Also there is a library that did this with their Koha system ages ago -- not sure what version they were using.
Nicole
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Agnes Rivers-Moore <arm@hanover.ca> wrote:
Hi all
I would like to imagine a feature for Koha's OPAC, where the customer can click on a 'Where is it?" button for any title that is available on shelf, and be presented with a library plan showing the section where the item should be. For instance, if the person looked up Pride & Prejudice, and the library has a copy in their Classics section, on the lower floor at the end of the Fiction shelving, the plan would show the shelving layout with the appropriate shelf area highlighted.
This would of course require some work from each library to create the shelf layout, and then link it to categories or call number ranges in Koha.
Just an idea, would this be hard to do, and is there interest out there?
Agnes
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-- Agnes Rivers-Moore Assistant Librarian Hanover Public Library
That was kind of my thought in sharing it here :) Nicole On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Agnes Rivers-Moore <arm@hanover.ca> wrote:
Nicole, thanks for the Bugzilla reference. I see no comments since almost a year ago, and no votes for it yet, so I hope to encourage some interest. I was thinking of something that would translate existing library location data (call number, item category, location and branch) from the item, rather than adding extra data as described ("create a new authorized type “maplinks” then allow Koha administrators to put in any content they want"). Call number may be more precise than needed, but I think call number ranges should work, such as Junior Fiction A-J. I have added my thoughts to the "bug", and hope others will add comments and votes.
Agnes
Nicole Engard wrote:
There is an enhancement request for this: http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=737
Also there is a library that did this with their Koha system ages ago -- not sure what version they were using.
Nicole
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Agnes Rivers-Moore <arm@hanover.ca> wrote:
Hi all
I would like to imagine a feature for Koha's OPAC, where the customer can click on a 'Where is it?" button for any title that is available on shelf, and be presented with a library plan showing the section where the item should be. For instance, if the person looked up Pride & Prejudice, and the library has a copy in their Classics section, on the lower floor at the end of the Fiction shelving, the plan would show the shelving layout with the appropriate shelf area highlighted.
This would of course require some work from each library to create the shelf layout, and then link it to categories or call number ranges in Koha.
Just an idea, would this be hard to do, and is there interest out there?
Agnes
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Agnes Rivers-Moore Assistant Librarian Hanover Public Library
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Agnes Rivers-Moore Assistant Librarian Hanover Public Library
Agnes, The idea of integrating a map of the library plus the shelf location is excellent. It would be particularly useful for people searching the catalog with their PDA so they could carry the map around with them. And I see a future RFID integration component where the PDA can use RFID tags embedded on shelves to help navigate them right to the item they want. When I think about RFID, these are the kinds of possiblities I see that make it worthwhile which is why dumbing them down so they have nothing on them but a bar code number (as a way to ensure patron privacy) is the wrong direction! We could do some pretty incredible stuff if we really thought broadly about how to use a read/write memory space on each our items. That would also require the tags to be generically readable for our library PDA applications. Getting back to the library map + shelf location idea...that reminds me of an idea we came up with with King County (when we were developing their system requirements) for dynamically tracking information about items that are on the shelf to see things like a) are our shelves too full? b) is our balance of materials right for our collection development goals? c) what is hot or not (based on what's moving and what's not). My image was of a dashboard where you could watch movement of materials live. Lori Ayre On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Agnes Rivers-Moore <arm@hanover.ca> wrote:
Hi all
I would like to imagine a feature for Koha's OPAC, where the customer can click on a 'Where is it?" button for any title that is available on shelf, and be presented with a library plan showing the section where the item should be. For instance, if the person looked up Pride & Prejudice, and the library has a copy in their Classics section, on the lower floor at the end of the Fiction shelving, the plan would show the shelving layout with the appropriate shelf area highlighted.
This would of course require some work from each library to create the shelf layout, and then link it to categories or call number ranges in Koha.
Just an idea, would this be hard to do, and is there interest out there?
Agnes
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Agnes Rivers-Moore Assistant Librarian Hanover Public Library
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Agnes Rivers-Moore <arm@...> writes:
I would like to imagine a feature for Koha's OPAC, where the customer can click on a 'Where is it?" button for any title that is available on shelf, and be presented with a library plan showing the section where the item should be.
Hello everyone, This is a project I have been working on in bits and pieces. I am still in the process of making a decent (and fairly simple) interface for the staff. The patron side is much easier. Progress is decent and with any luck I am *hoping* to have time to get this done in a few months, but one never knows what new projects are going to pop-up! It is not quite ready to upload to be worked on. I think the important thing is to allow different libraries different ways of handling the maps. For us (and probably others) choosing a map for a location (including range of call / location code / library branch) is done and then the map can be annotated with an transparent overlay. In this way, one does not need to make countless maps and change them all the time. The main library(or libraries / floor / etc.) layout map can be used and then marked up for the location of the collection. The "marked-up" part is a little tricky - but I am looking for Jquery to rescue the situation. If the library did not want to use the overlay stuff, they could just upload jpegs, pngs, flvs(why not?), or gifs (or anim-gifs as NEU did) but it could be more work whenever things are moved around. And they do move! With some neat JQuery on the patron side also for fancy display, the thing would look pretty nice. This is a somewhat large scope project - mainly because of all the different elements required to do it, and I am working away at it when I have half a moment. Darrell Ulm
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Nicole Engard