[Web4lib] new book list script

[Robert L. Balliot]

Greetings Ben,

I think Library Thing might work for you:

http://www.librarything.com

This template does the ISBN trick:

http://tinyurl.com/f6muz

It is free up to 200 books.

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Bristol, Rhode Island
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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Ben Haines
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 5:57 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] new book list script

Hi all,

Has anyone written a script for generating an HTML book list (with title,
author, cover image, etc.) based on a list of ISBNs? I get a list of ISBNs
for our new books every month, and I'd like to be able to automagically turn
that into a "New Books" page on our web site. It seems like you should be
able to scrape the results of an ISBN query (to the OPAC, or Amazon, etc.)
and turn it into a list--like the ones you see in blog sidebars sometimes. I
don't know enough programming to create such a thing from scratch. However,
I think I can probably manage to modify an existing script to work with our
particular situation. I did some web searching, and came up empty, so I
thought I'd ask here. Any ideas, or can anyone point me to a good resource?
I'm willing to put in some learning time, if I know where to start.

Thanks,

- Ben

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Ben Haines
Reference/Technology Librarian
Forest Park Public Library
bhaines at forestparkpubliclibrary.org 
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