Thanks Dan!! I didn't know about OpenLibrary
On 2010-11-24, at 7:18 PM, Dan Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 06:42:23PM -0800, Tara Robertson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I know it's possible to use commercial cover art and enhanced OPAC content >> with Evergreen. If it is possible, how hard would it be to do? (I realize >> this is a 'how long is a piece of string' kinda question.) I'm wondering if >> it's possible to have a local cover art collection and if anyone has done >> this... >> >> Our library has an awesome artists' books collection and our users are >> visual people. It's unlikely that these titles would be included in a cover >> art subscription. >> >> We're currently using Horizon, and this is not possible. It's not a deal >> breaker, but it's something that would be really nice. >> >> I read the feature list for 2.0 and don't see it mentioned. > > While Evergreen does offer the ability to use a local cover art > collection (http://markmail.org/message/sx7h4kpxzrleu4hc offers the > details), the approach that might offer lots of win all around would > be to use the OpenLibrary added content plugin (available in 1.6, it > only requires a small tweak to the opensrf.xml file, and it's the > default in 2.0) to provide cover art (+ table of contents where > available). > > OpenLibrary.org lets you upload cover art for any book (and create > an entry for a book if they don't already have it listed); you don't > even need to sign up for an account. Evergreen will automatically query > OpenLibrary for a match based on ISBN and display the cover art - so > your artists will get coverage in your OPAC, as well as more exposure > via OpenLibrary directly and to every other library that pulls cover art > from OpenLibrary. Everyone wins! > > If you find that OpenLibrary doesn't have your artists' books catalogued > already, you can send them a bulk upload of your MARC records > (http://openlibrary.org/data) to get them into place so that all you > would have to do is upload the cover art. > _______________________________________________ > OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation _______________________________________________ OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION mailing list [email protected] http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation
