[Koha] Another Library using Koha online!

[Jesse Lambertson]

Really cool.

And three cheers to Katrin Fischer for assistance provided.

Cheers,
Jesse

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Witoszynskyj Stephan <stephan at wito.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> thanks!
>
> Just in case somebody is interested: a very helpful resource was
> https://sometimesmotion.wordpress.com/ Basically, the jQuery tricks I use
> to integrate our web-site into Koha are based on the info I found on this
> site. Btw. I think it would be really cool if Koha’s OPACmainUserBlock gets
> more flexible in the future. Maybe allowing some sort plugin system. IMHO
> the jQuery solution is working, but it is an awful hack. :-)
>
> Katrin Fischer helped me to solve the multilingual web-interface by
> answering my questions on this list.
> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2014-September/040807.html
>
> The word cloud containing the authors is based on
> http://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.co.at/2012/11/a-wordcloud-in-python.html
> While the cloud generated by this code is an image, the sentence "PS: yes,
> this doesn't generate css / html4. But as you get the text sizes and
> positions, it should be easy to use this as a backend to generate a html
> page.“ got me working on the code. Well, the solution is a bit of a hack
> and not perfect, but it’s kind of working. So, if someone is interested in
> the code, let me know.
>
> The slide show uses Jssor http://www.jssor.com/ which is extremely
> flexible and let you use almost any kind of HTML code in a slide.
>
> Finally, I wrote some cronjobs that create the pages/slides containing
> newly acquired and newly catalogued books and the list of authors (using
> the Lingua::Translit perl module
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/Lingua-Translit/ for automatic
> transliteration of authors in cyrillic script) and the respective word
> cloud.
>
> I already have another little project in mind that I would like to work on
> as soon time permits (as I mentioned my focus will be on cataloguing and a
> few things in our Koha configuration still needs some attention). So, what
> I would like to develop is a cronjob that regularly posts newly
> acquired/catalogued books to our library's Facebook page. I did some
> research on this already and it shouldn’t be too hard to implement.
>
> Cheers,
>   Stephan
>
> Am 02.02.2015 um 15:49 schrieb Jesse Lambertson <jlambertson at sqcc.org>:
>
> > Stephan,
> >
> > That looks great.
> >
> > Thank you for sharing.
> >
> > It's good for me to see the variations of KOHA in use.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jesse
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Witoszynskyj Stephan <stephan at wito.org>
> wrote:
> > Dear Koha Community,
> >
> > Our Koha installation is now online! We are a small Ukrainian
> greek-catholic parish library located in Vienna, Austria. We started using
> Koha about a year ago and, finally, managed to get a public server and
> migrated our installation to this server.
> >
> > At the same time we integrated our web-page into our Koha installation
> to provide our users a seamless user experience. The goal was to present
> our catalogue in a way that makes it also accessible to readers who are not
> used using electronic catalogues.
> >
> > I wish to thank everyone in the Koha community who provided help, either
> by answering my questions on this lists or by creating all those amazing
> resources one can find on the web (video tutorials, blogs, the Koha wiki,
> …). All those things make Koha great and fun to work with.
> >
> > Please, visit our site and let me know your comments and feedback. The
> URL is http://library.st-barbara-austria.org/
> >
> > Of course, we would be happy to be added to the list of Koha users on
> the Koha web-site:
> > Public Library of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Parish St. Barbara,
> Vienna, Austria
> > http://library.st-barbara-austria.org/
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >   Stephan Witoszynskyj
> >
> > ps: currently, we have only a fraction of our books in our catalogue. So
> don’t be surprised, that the catalogue is rather small. Cataloguing will be
> our main focus for the next months.
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> >
> >
> > --
> > Jesse A Lambertson
> > Librarian
> > Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center
> > 1100 16th St, NW
> > Washington, DC 20036
> >
> > Ph: (202)-677-3967 Ext. 104
> > jlambertson at sqcc.org
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-- 
Jesse A Lambertson
Librarian
Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center
1100 16th St, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Ph: (202)-677-3967 Ext. 104
jlambertson at sqcc.org