[Koha] Displaying book covers or thumbnails on search result

[Joe Atzberger]

You would have to modify the template and the script logic also.  I'm not
sure whether 856$a also would have other uses, in which case you would need
additional data and mapping (or at least a syspref) to turn this feature on
and off.  The number of image sources makes it difficult to manage adding on
new content sources, since you have to worry about the interaction with the
other possible images.  It would be easy to hack it in, but much harder to
do "right".

--Joe

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Dibyendra Hyoju <dibyendra at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for your response, Joe! So, do we have to modify the template
> to display the book covers in the search result for the book records
> which have ISBN? I found similar solution while searching in Google.
> Would you like to suggest any good ways?
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you.
>
> Thanking you,
> Dibyendra
>
> On 8/21/09, Joe Atzberger <ohiocore at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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