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

[kathryn at catalyst.net.nz]

Kia ora koutou,

Just to let you know that Melissa found the required support for 
funding this enhancement to Koha, and development is now underway.

Many thanks to the NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants, Region 
Halland libraries (Sweden), South Taranaki District Libraries (NZ), NZ 
Education Institute and Libriotech of (Norway) for your contributions. 
Despite being on directly opposite sides of the globe from each other, 
we all want the same things :)

Wishing you all a lovely day,
Kathryn

Kathryn Tyree
Catalyst IT

*Apologies for cross-posting


On 2014-05-21 14:40, Melissa Clarkson wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Melissa
>
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