[Koha] Displaying book covers or thumbnails on search result

[Andrew Buxton]

In the case of Syndetics data (which we use) the images are displayed using a link rather than copied to our server.

Andrew Buxton
IDS, Brighton, UK

-----Original Message-----
From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Davoodifar, H. Sam (EDU-ECY)
Sent: 20 August 2009 16:31
To: Koha General Mailing-List
Subject: Re: [Koha] Displaying book covers or thumbnails on search result

Aren't these cover images copyright protected?

__Sam Davoodifar
Manitoba Education Citizenship & Youth

-----Original Message-----
From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz
[mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Joe Atzberger
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 10:00 AM
To: Dibyendra Hyoju
Cc: Koha General Mailing-List
Subject: Re: [Koha] Displaying book covers or thumbnails on search
result

I don't know how the hyperlink is related.  Most book jackets are
retrieved from external sources using ISBN.  In 2.2, I think ISBN is the
only key for jacket images.  However, the Amazon code in 2.2 may not be
current enough to use the Amazon API anymore.  Amazon changed their
terms of service and technical dimensions of how the API is used.  

In 3.0, the Amazon integration is current and working, and other
identifiers might also be used, but ISBN is still the most common. 

--Joe Atzberger


2009/8/20 Dibyendra Hyoju <dibyendra at gmail.com>


	Hi all,
	
	I have installed Koha 3.00.03 on Debian-Lenny. I have imported
our Library records using 'bulkmarcimport.pl' and it is working fine. We
want to display thumbnails of books on the search result. We've kept the
hyperlink of the book cover on the subfield $a of tag 856. I searched
for the solution on Google but I couldn't find the relevant information.
I found the solution for Koha 2.x but that was just for moving the book
cover to the left-hand side <http://www.myacpl.org/koha/?p=196>  of the
search result. I have seen libraries displaying the book covers on their
search resuly. So, I was wondering how to display the thumbnails of the
book covers on the search result of OPAC. Any help will be appreciated.
	
	Thank you.
	
	-- 
	Dibyendra Hyoju
	Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya
	Patan Dhoka, Lalitpur
	Nepal
	


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