[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] New Material OPAC Search URL

[Mike Rylander]

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Geoff Brown <gebrown at niagaracollege.ca> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Great - thanks Mike!
> This seems to be working and pulling recent titles just for the College. If I can ask one more thing....Is there a way to limit these results to just books?
>

Not currently.  That might be an interesting project, though.  Relying
on the SVF infrastructure, and using CGI params, it doesn't seem like
it'd be too terribly hard.

--miker

> Thanks,
> Geoff
>
>
>
>>>> Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com> 1/6/2012 2:26 PM >>>
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Jason Stephenson <jstephenson at mvlc.org> wrote:
>> There are other supercat feeds that allow you to limit results by shortname.
>>
>> http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=backend-devel:supercat:examples
>>
>> Has some examples of using different supercat feeds.
>>
>
> There's also http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=scratchpad:random_magic_spells#url_format_for_browse_indexes
>
> For example, the following lists the 10 bibs that have most recently
> had items added at Rittenhouse (shortname MFR):
> http://niagaracollege.niagaraevergreen.ca/opac/extras/browse/html-full/item-age/MFR
>
> Just change 'html-full' to the format you want (atom, atom-full,
> html_holdings, html_holdings-full, marcxml, etc).
>
> --
> Mike Rylander
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>  | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source
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>
>> Jason
>>
>>
>> Quoting Geoff Brown <gebrown at niagaracollege.ca>:
>>
>>> Hi June,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the suggestion - this seems like it would be a great strategy
>>> to achieve  a list of the most recent bibs imported - unfortunately, our
>>> situation is complicated by the fact that Niagara Evergreen is a consortia
>>> (4 Public Libraries and 1 College Library) which shares bibs. Freshmeat
>>> would not reflect which titles were entered at which library. This is why I
>>> thought that constructing an opac url specific to our library would be the
>>> best way to display our latest titles.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the input - it is appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks again,
>>> Geoff
>>>
>>>>>> "Rayner, June" <raynerj at einetwork.net> 1/6/2012 1:09 PM >>>
>>>
>>> Hi Geoff
>>>
>>> Have you tried something like this?
>>>
>>>
>>> http://niagaracollege.niagaraevergreen.ca/opac/extras/feed/freshmeat/atom/biblio/import/10
>>>
>>> This would give you the most recent 10 (or however many you specify)
>>> titles added to the catalog.     There are several different formats that
>>> you can use.
>>>
>>> I got this information from
>>> http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=backend-devel:supercat:examples.
>>>
>>> Hope that's helpful.
>>>
>>> June
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
>>> [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of
>>> Geoff Brown
>>> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 11:59 AM
>>> To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
>>> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] New Material OPAC Search URL
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Hope everyone had a good break!
>>>
>>> In an attempt to promote our new titles I am trying to construct a opac
>>> search url that will display the results of new material by date added to
>>> our catalogue.  I can create a search that included published date of 2012
>>> but the list doesn't seem to sort with the newest at the top since they are
>>> all the same year.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if there a way to create a quick search link that will
>>> point patrons to our new material that would be more reflective of the
>>> latest titles added to our catalogue?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Geoff Brown
>>>
>>> Library Technician - eResources,
>>> NC Libraries and Learning Commons
>>> Niagara College, Welland Campus
>>> 300 Woodlawn Road
>>> Welland, ON L3C 7L3
>>> Tel.  (905) 735-2211  Welland x 7731
>>> Fax  (905) 736-6021
>>> gebrown at niagaracollege.ca
>>> www.niagaracollege.ca/library
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>



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Mike Rylander
 | Director of Research and Development
 | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source
 | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
 | email:  miker at esilibrary.com
 | web:  http://www.esilibrary.com