The way I understand it is that there's very little collection geolimiting that is on a state by state basis since we have all the states in the US participating. The problem is when people are in a state and Open Library doesn't seem to recognize them as being in the US at all (you can tell this is happening because they don't see a state-based banner at the top when they log in, it happened to me once). I may have the basic setup wrong but I am hoping someone who knows exactly how OL is doing this could suggest a method to repair it.
________ Jessamyn librarian.net ::: jessamyn.com ::: jessamyn.info ::: box 345, randolph vt 05060 On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 7:00 PM, jessamyn c. west <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> In looking over the past 30-50 emails, we've had 6-8 reports of people >> who have been using Open Library just fine and then suddenly can't see >> any of the lending library books anymore and only see DAISY titles. >> >> I have been forwarding all these emails to Anand when they are >> reporting a geographical location and an IP address. I'm aware this >> may not be an OL issue (i.e. that ISPs are issuing IP addresses that >> don't resolve properly in some way) but I'm wondering if we can make >> this process smoother for people. This happened to me a few weeks ago >> and I was able to fix it by restarting my modem and getting a new IP >> but not everyone can do this. Thoughts? > > > Doing a geo lookup on the IP address is a nice convenience, but it seems > like there should be a way to override it and allow the user to specify > which geography they want lendable books for. There are, for example, lots > of people who live in New Hampshire, but commute to Massachusetts for work. > They might want to do lookups at home for books that they want to borrow > when in Boston. > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
