[Koha] New Arrivals display in OpacMainUserBlock?

[Hal Bright]

We use a widget provided to us by DearReader.com which allows us to produce lists of books by isbn. Their service provides book jackets and descriptions that connect to koha. We have to update it manually each week, but it takes 5 minutes to do.

On Fri Dec 10th, 2010 8:48 AM EST Owen Leonard wrote:

>> NPL has done this and Owen wrote up a blog post about how he went
>> about doing it:
>>
>> http://www.myacpl.org/koha/?p=74
>
>I did that write-up because people often asked me how we did it on our
>web site. However, I hesitate to point people to it because it's a
>complicated solution. It involves maintaining a non-Koha database to
>track the new titles and a web application infrastructure for handling
>adds, deletions, and display.
>
>The reason we went to all this trouble is that we didn't want to
>highlight every new title, just selected titles which we thought would
>be of interest to our readers.
>
>If you could take the result of a Koha search and embed them in your
>site you might be able to come close. But some questions remain:
>
>All new titles? The biblio table tracks creation date of biblio
>records using the 'dateadded' field, but the OPAC search doesn't have
>access to that. You can sort by acquisition date, but that looks at
>the date *item* records were created, so if you add a single copy to
>an old biblio record that record will pop to the top of your results.
>
>To me it's a complicated matter, but maybe I'm just too picky about it.
>
>  -- Owen
>
>
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