Heather, I like that your procedure involves improving Open Library which you then use for your Koha catalog. Very cool. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight Board & Communications Committee / Evergreen (707) 763-6869 // Lori.Ayre@galecia.com Availability: http://tungle.me/lori.ayre <Lori.Ayre@galecia.com>Specializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering, workflow optimization, and materials handling =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:24 PM, <Heather_Hernandez@nps.gov> wrote:

Hi--

We get our covers free from Open Library; our OpenLibraryCovers preference in "Enhanced Content preferences" is set to "Add." (We're on Koha 3.8.)

I just wrote a section for our manual on covers--perhaps others would find it interesting. ("Keys" is our catalog, http://keys.bywatersolutions.com/ )

To add cover images to Keys, scan the cover (or the open cover & spine--whatever looks best) as a .jpg, in color, with at least 300dpi, and crop the image appropriately.

Add the cover to Open Library (it's the source for our covers):

You don't need a login/account at Open Library to add a cover.

If necessary, copy the record over from OCLC & add that to Open Library as well. If the item has an ISBN, be sure it is in the OCLC/Keys record and the Open Library record, and it will come over into Keys from Open Library automatically.

If the item does not have an ISBN, then add the cover to Keys; c.f. the section in the Koha manual for adding cover images to the local catalog.

Cheerio! heather ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian Cultural Resources and Museum Management Division San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park heather_hernandez@nps.gov 415-561-7032 (voice) 415-556-3540 (fax) http://www.nps.gov/safr/historyculture/library-collections.htm

"The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail."--Gustaf Lindborg

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Lori wrote:

I like that your procedure involves improving Open Library which you then use for your Koha catalog.  Very cool.

Thanks! It's SO fast to do, that I quickly realized it was the best thing for us to do--I hadn't realized how fast it was to add a cover to Open Library until I tried it! Cheerio! heather ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian Cultural Resources and Museum Management Division San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park heather_hernandez@nps.gov 415-561-7032 (voice) 415-556-3540 (fax) http://www.nps.gov/safr/historyculture/library-collections.htm "The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail."--Gustaf Lindborg