Nick,
Very interesting! I look forward to poking around in it, and seeing what could be integrated into Koha. Thanks for sharing! -Ian 2011/7/25 Nicholas van Rheede van Oudtshoorn <[email protected]> > Hi all, > > We've been avid users of Koha here at Perth Bible College for quite a few > years now. Recently, I've done some work to improve the book cover system > here at PBC. A lot of our records lack ISBN records (BAD library practices > in the old library system!), and I really wanted something nicer than a > "cover not found" image. The result (attached) is an html/css book cover > generating system - which also locally stores covers attained from > librarything and openlibrary, redirecting to an amazon image if no cover is > found. Unfortunately, it's in php - since I'm more familiar with that. :( > The kernel for the system (though it's been *heavily* modified is courtesy a > script by Art Zemon from 2008. > > We also put together a newbooks display. The results can be seen on the > landing page: http://library.pbc.wa.edu.au/ - (and there you'll see that > even some of our "new" books don't have ISBNs! <groan>) > > Hoping this might be of use to someone else. Something like the html/css > book cover system could, in my opinion, be very useful... > > Nick van Oudtshoorn > Perth Bible College > > > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ > -- Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com [email protected] Twitter: @sekjal
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