[Koha] Using Google Books for cover images in OPAC

[Nicole Engard]

It's really a matter of personal preference.  If you use Google Books
then you're advocating Google Books - while not a site to purchase
books, it's still a commercial site.  Most people find that Amazon has
more covers, but I haven't noticed a difference personally.

Nicole C. Engard

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Barbara Keef <bkeef at windham.lib.me.us> wrote:
> 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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