[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ISBN search of local OPAC from a vendor site

[aaronz at pls-net.org]

I dont know how it is setup with your particular vendor, but you can get the link to search by ISBN in a library by doing an advanced ISBN search (restricted to a library) and copying that address. 
For example, here is a search by ISBN in one of our libraries: http://evergreen.owwl.org/opac/en-US/skin/owwl/xml/rresult.xml?tp=&t=&rt=isbn&l=770&adv=1111111111111 If you were to replace 1111111111111 with the actual ISBN, it would return any titles with that ISBN.
The key parts of the above string are the library number (770 in the above string) and the ISBN (1111111111111 in the above string)
With those, you could setup a custom search engine in Internet Explorer to search the catalog(see: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/en-en/default.mspx)

Aaron Z
Jr. Systems Administrator

Pioneer Library System
2557 State Rt. 21
Canandaigua, New York  14424
Phone: (585) 394-8260

----- "Mary Llewellyn" <mllewell at biblio.org> wrote:

> From: "Mary Llewellyn" <mllewell at biblio.org>
> To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 10:45:41 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ISBN search of local OPAC from a vendor site
>
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone know how to set up an ISBN search of our OPAC on Title
> Source or
> iPage, so that when we click on the vendor's "OPAC search" button, it
> opens
> a browser to the OPAC and executes the search.? Our acq librarians
> have been
> used to doing that as a check to prevent themselves from ordering a
> title
> their library already owns. We'd need to search a specific library,
> not our
> entire catalog. I had it set up for Horizon, but our world is about
> to
> change.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Mary Llewellyn
> Database Manager
> Bibliomation, Inc.
> Middlebury, CT
> mllewell at biblio.org