https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=41186
Bug ID: 41186
Summary: Koha to check multiple sources for book cover images
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status:
Product: Koha
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P5 - low
Component: OPAC
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
QA Contact: [email protected]
One can ask Koha to allow for multiple cover images, but this can look very
messy, and for a lot of our older books (pre-2000?) there are no covers.
It would be great if Koha could
1. Only display one cover, but from multiple, possible sources.
2. Look on the internet for other possible images.
3. Cover images to be a a reportable feature. I.e. you run a report and get a
list of books without covers.
4. For an option to fix lack of covers by batch jobs.
I know the above are big asks, but think about how much better Koha OPACs and
our collections would look like? The end user might think that Koha isn't "good
enough".
Maybe the solution is that all cover images need to be stored locally, and then
Koha uses the local database of images?
The above comes from a librarian who has nearly no knowledge of coding, but 20+
years of experience with library users.
As things stand at the moment, it might look neater for us to turn _all_ cover
images off. I appreciate that if you only ever buy books from Amazon, and only
have popular books (or fiction) this is not a problem, but for a specialist,
academic collection like ours this problem will only get worse the more books
we are adding. Currently 100k of 250k of volumes are catalogued! Help!
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