[Koha] Koha Development Opportunity : Display of images in OPAC from multiple sources

[Kathryn Tyree]

Hi everyone,

For further info, here's a link to the RFC Robin wrote:
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Covers_from_multiple_sources_RFC  

Cheers,
Kathryn


Kathryn Tyree
for the Koha team at Catalyst IT
kathryn at catalyst.net.nz 

On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 02:40 +0000, Melissa Clarkson wrote:
> Hello everyone,
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> My name is Melissa Clarkson and I am the Team Leader of the Library at
> the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants.  We have been on
> Koha for 2 ½ years.
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> We have started scanning book cover images that are not available from
> Amazon to have them available in our OPAC and also our current
> awareness bulletin.  They display great in the bulletin, but in the
> OPAC it creates formatting issues and looks plain ugly.
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> I have approached Catalyst IT in Wellington New Zealand about this
> issue, and they have advised that it will take 28 hours.  They will
> work through the bug that is creating this issue.  The outcome will be
> that we can use multiple sources to get the book covers from,
> including local images uploaded in to Koha.  I can’t justify paying
> for all of this given it is 28 hours, so I’m coming to the community
> to see if you would be interested in contributing to a joint
> development of this.
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> If you are interested, please respond by email by 4 June 2014, with
> how many hours you’d be able to contribute to this development.
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> Thank you in advance
> 
> Melissa
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> Melissa Clarkson| Team Leader – Library Services | ddi: +64 4 474 7871
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