[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] cover art

[Tara Robertson]

Thanks Dan!!

I didn't know about OpenLibrary

On 2010-11-24, at 7:18 PM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> 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.
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