[Koha] Using Google Books for cover images in OPAC

[Barbara Keef]

We are setting up our KOHA preferences and we wondered if using Google Book 
Covers is preferred over Amazon-- a comment was made that using Amazon might 
suggest that the library is advocating purchasing from Amazon.

Comments?  Good success with Google covers?

Thanks!

Barbara L. Keef
Reference & Technology Librarian
Windham Public Library
217 Windham Center Rd.
Windham, Maine 04062
207-892-1908
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Grobani" <dgrobani at samuelmerritt.edu>
To: <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Koha] OPAC/ Amazon images/ Internet access


>
> Hi Rich,
>
> I took care of the problem of the patron closing the browser by launching
> the browser from within this batch file:
>
> :loop
> c:\progra~1\intern~1\iexplore
> goto loop
>
> Now when a patron closes the browser, it launches again. There's still the
> problem of the patron killing the batch file, but that doesn't happen very
> often.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daniel Grobani
> System Administrator
> John A. Graziano Memorial Library
> Samuel Merritt University
> 400 Hawthorne Avenue
> Oakland, CA 94609
>
> 510.869.8900
> dgrobani at samuelmerritt.edu
> http://www.samuelmerritt.edu/library
>
>
>
> Rich Boulet wrote:
>>
>> Barbara:
>>
>> We accomplished this by installing Fortres on our OPAC-only Windows
>> machines
>> and whitelisting the websites we wanted to make accessible.  You would
>> have
>> to whitelist your catalog URL, as well as whatever URLs are serving 
>> Amazon
>> content.  The program also has certain desktop controls that are handy
>> (disabling right-click options, run command, etc.)
>>
>> One headache we constantly run into is patrons closing the browser when
>> they
>> are finished, making the dedicated OPACs look unusable to the casual
>> observer.  One way to mitigate this is by having the browser open 2 tabs
>> at
>> start-up.  When a patron goes to close the browser they have to confirm
>> that
>> they really want to close the 2 tabs.  With that in place the browser is
>> closed less often, but it still happens sometimes.
>>
>> For OPAC-only machines we are also running Deep Freeze, which restores
>> Windows to its previous state at each restart and also erases any history
>> left by past users.  We also configured the browsers to erase browsing
>> history at each restart.  Even with this in place some patrons have
>> expressed concern about their search history being available to 
>> subsequent
>> users unless they restart the browser.
>>
>> -Rich Boulet
>>
>>
>>
>> Richard Boulet
>> Library Director
>> Blue Hill Public Library
>> 207.374.5515x13
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz
>> [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Barbara Keef
>> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 2:00 PM
>> To: KOHA
>> Subject: [Koha] OPAC/ Amazon images/ Internet access
>>
>> Good afternoon,
>>
>> We are setting up KOHA for our public library and I wonder if we use
>> images
>> from Amazon on our OPAC, then patrons accessing the Amazon link through
>> the
>> image would be online, of course.
>>
>> Is there a way to allow patrons to view the Amazon info yet limit
>> continued
>> access to the internet?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Barbara L. Keef
>> Reference & Technology Librarian
>> Windham Public Library
>> 217 Windham Center Rd.
>> Windham, Maine 04062
>> 207-892-1908
>>
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