[Web4lib] new book list script

[Turner,Kathleen]

Where are you getting the ISBN's and why couldn't that source also give
you the rest of the info?  

Kathleen 


Kathleen H. Turner
Web/Education Librarian
W.W. Hagerty Library
33rd and Market Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875

Tel: 215.895.6783
Fax: 215.895.2070
khturner at drexel.edu


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[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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