[Koha] Displaying book covers or thumbnails on search result

[Joe Atzberger]

I don't think any mechanism for an arbitrary jacket image target exists, so
you would have to build one.
--joe

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Dibyendra Hyoju <dibyendra at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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