[Koha] Jacket images for DVDs

[Joann Ransom]

Hi Magnus,

You hit the nail on the head Magnus!

I can get MARC records from National Library z39.50 by entering the spine
number in the Standard ID field, but they don't have cover art.

Cheers Jo.

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Magnus Enger <magnus at enger.priv.no> wrote:

> 2011/2/7 Joann Ransom <jransom at library.org.nz>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Has anyone found a way to import DVD cover art in the same way that we
> bring
> > in book jackets. What is a good source?
>
> Good question, Joann!
>
> Amazon probably has a lot of DVD cover art, I think the main problem
> is how to find it. For books there are ISBNs, but I don't think there
> are similar IDs for DVDs that would work the same way, or that are
> regularly entered into bibliographic records?
>
> An alternative to using an ID is searching by title, but that will
> soon become messy, with different DVDs having the same title, new
> versions of old titles etc.
>
> Just my NOK 0.02.
>
> Regards,
> Magnus Enger
> libriotech.no
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