[Koha] Displaying book covers or thumbnails on search result

[Dibyendra Hyoju]

Hi Nicole,

Thank you very much for your prompt response. Our library "Madan
Puraskar Pustakalaya" archives Nepali library materials. We were
suggested to use the tag 866$a to store the electronic resource as a
hyperlink, and we have copied the images of cover pages to our
wesbite.

Our record looks like follows in which a hyperlink is placed on the
856$a, linking to the book cover:

=LDR  01343nam  2200265Ka 4500
=008  20090808s1986\\\\ii\\\\\\\\\\\\000\f\nep\d
=020  \\$6880-01$cMūlya: 15.00
=100  1\$6880-02$aKshatrī, Līlabahādura.
=245  10$6880-03$aBrahmaputrakā chheu chhāu /$cLekhak Līlabahādura Kshatrī.
=260  \\$6880-04$aDārjīliṅa :$bŚyāma Prakāśana,$c[2043] 1986$e(Banāras
:$fPrakāśa Prinṭiṅa Presa)
=300  \\$6880-05$a173 p. ;$c22 cm.
=500  \\$aCopyright holder: the author.
=500  \\$aNovel.
=546  \\$aIn Nepali.
=856  40$ahttp://madanpuraskar.org/images/bookcovers/bhramaputra_11040.jpg
=852  \\$aMadan Puraskar Pustakalaya$ePatandhoka, Lalitpur,
Nepal$xAccession no.: 11040

As we cannot find the book jackets of Nepali books on Amazon,
Librarything, Google books, etc., we're scanning the book jackets
ourselves and putting them on our own website. If images cannot be
imported from the MARC record, It would be great if we could display
the book cover from our records in some other mechanism.

Also, If ISBN is mandatory for loading book jackets, there will be a
problem for most of our old Nepali records which don't have ISBN. I am
hopeful that there might be some other alternative way to load book
covers for the records lacking ISBN.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thanking you,
Dibyendra

On 8/21/09, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
> These book jackets are coming from Amazon, Google Books, Syndetics,
> Baker & Taylor, LibraryThing or Babeltheque.  You can choose which
> service you want to use by going to your system preferences at More >
> Administration > Global System Preferences > Enhanced Content.  At
> this time there is no way to import images from the MARC record.
>
> Learn more here:
> http://koha.org/documentation/manual/3.0/administration/global-system-preferences/enhanced-content
>
> Nicole
>
> 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 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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