[Koha] Cataloging books which doesn't have ISBN etc.,

[hansbkk at gmail.com]

You can of course display a URL in your detail record, which the user
can click on to show the cover image, stored on your own web server or
anywhere else (subject to their use terms of course). I can't imagine
it would take much work to customize an OPAC template to have the
image that URL points to display, but you would need to figure it out
and test it yourself.

I don't know what the developers think of this idea, but personally
I'd add my vote to have such a feature in the mainstream code, as I
hate depending on outside services. Ideally it could be configured to
integrate with the code that handle the outside services, in the sense
of suppressing the use of the latter if there is data in the local-use
MARC subfield specified to contain the URL for local cover images.

>From looking at the system preferences listing all the different
services, and the fact that it is possible to configure Koha to
display more than one at the same time, I would speculate that the
architecture for this functionality perhaps hasn't been "modularized"
(e.g. to handle a plugin architecture), and therefore what we'd like
to see may not be easy to implement in an elegant manner. However
personally I'd be happy with a kludge of basic functionality as long
as it worked. . .

Is there a feature request function within the bug tracker? And if so,
has this been posted there already?

2011/3/11 Somasekhar Rao K <raosoma at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to catalog the books which doesn't have any ISBN etc., for me to
> import. I was using Marcedit and sometimes directly from Koha to add books.
> However, I was not able to make out how to store the cover image of the
> book. I want to scan the book myself and store it so that when the book is
> searched, it shows the image as well along with the other details of the
> book entered.
>
> Can you please help me out? Koha version: 3.02.3