This question finally prompted me to
post my own comments and questions to the list. I've been experimenting
with Koha for the past couple of months--I've set up Koha for Windows on
a couple of computers, and I have the Ubuntu VM version on a couple of
PCs to play around with as well. Our library (8000 or so books, plus a
few thousand bound journals) is considering changing ILSs, and I've been
looking into both Koha and Evergreen.
However, that doesn't have a lot to
do with my current question: is there a way to link a locally-stored thumbnail
image to a record so that it displays in a catalog search? I'm thinking
of putting a photo archive into Koha as a way to teach myself how to use
it. (If we do switch ILSs at work, I'm going to know a lot more about structures,
etc., than I do know, and the best way I learn is by wading in doing it.)
I know it's possible to include a link to a URL in the 856 tag, but that's
not quite what I want. I'm looking for something a bit more like the Gallery
View of the photo collections in the Library of Congress' American Memory
project (see http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/ngphome.html
for an example).
And as for the Z39.50 question, I tried
adding a record earlier this week on my home Ubuntu/VM copy, and it worked.
My barcode scanner didn't work all that well (yes, I have a barcode scanner
at home; doesn't everybody??), but the Z39.50 search did.
Fred King
Medical Librarian, Washington Hospital Center
fred.king@medstar.net
202-877-6221
koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz wrote on 12/26/2007
11:45:06 AM:
> "Mr Jody Kerley" <kerlj001@medway.org.uk> wrote:
> > I'm VERY new to KOHA. Can I scan a barcode to add a book
, and get all the
> > details automatically from the internet, including cover pics?
if yes, how
> > please?
>
> Not including cover pics unless you have an Amazon account and can
> agree to their terms (which I would be surprised by in a school),
but
> most other bibliographic details can be added from a Z39.50 search
of
> a remote server. Z39.50 server lists are available and maybe
a school
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