On 10/02/2008 03:48 PM, H.S. wrote: > NoOp wrote: >> On 10/02/2008 09:25 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> [snips] >>> could not find the book. It is very important to me to be able to look >>> up books by ISBN or LOC number and have Zotero add them to my >>> collection. Otherwise I have to type all the information in manually, >>> which is a major effort considering that I have several thousand books >>> to catalog. >> >> Have you considered looking at an opensource library system instead? >> Perhaps something like koha etc: >> >> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22library+system%22+%22open+source%22 >> >> Even it's for personal use, you might find it easier to use MySQL and an >> opensource library frontend that is specifically designed for this sort >> of thing rather than trying to enter everything in OOo. > > > I have installed Koha in the recent past for somebody. I can confirm > that Zotero can detect a bib item on a Koha library catalog page and > show an icon in the URL bar that lets you add the item to your Zotero > database. > > However, installing Koha just for this purpose (to maintain a list of > books to be in turn maintained in Zotero) seems to be extreme overkill > and redundant.
I don't know... "I have several thousand books to catalog" sounds like a job for an oss library package to me. I doubt that a library with "several thousand books" would attempt to catalog simply via OOo and Zotero; and gmu.edu probably would recommend the same. Then again, I've no prior experience in doing this so I can certainly be wrong & you seem to have good recent experience. Last time I installed koha was about 6 months ago, but it was only for testing/curiosity/learning purposes. :-) > > To the OP, John, the best bet IMHO seems to be to search for a book or > article or any other bib item on some library catalog (or multiple > catalogs to get the item record) using Firefox and then click the Zotero > "add item" button that should appear in the URL bar of Firefox. That > bitem-item-detection works on my univ. library page and also on the Koha > webpage which resides no a home computer. Pretty neat, I'd say. > > BTW, could you please let us know how it goes? Zotero seems to be one > the best things available for biblio. stuff in OOo at present. Plus, > their Sync Preview is really cool, it lets you sync your Zotero > databases in multiple computers to your library stored at one place! > > Regards. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
