[Web4lib] new book list script

[Tim Spalding]

A quick note about what LibraryThing and book lists:

LibraryThing proper is used by some libraries for new book lists. They
catalog their books on the site and then make a "widget" to put on
their homepage or wherever they want the list. At present, the *links*
from the books on that list can't go back into their OPAC. We plan to
change that. But this is not an anticipated use. It's just a function
of how broken OPACs are that the *easiest* way to make a book list for
your OPAC is to hack together something from LibraryThing..

LibraryThing for Libraries is an OPAC enhancer, or a suite of OPAC
enhancers. We may end up including some sort of list-making
feature—the architecture is very suited for it—but it's not part of it
now. Maybe someone else will do it first or better.

Tim

On 5/17/07, Deb Bergeron <bergeron at macalester.edu> wrote:
> Robert,
>
> Help me out here.  I'm investigating LibraryThing for Libraries.  My
> understanding is there are two products: LibraryThing and LibraryThing
> for Libraries.  With LibraryThing the max number is 5000 isbn's and no
> limit for LibraryThing for Libraries (Danbury is using this). Am I
> understanding this correctly?
>
> Thanks
>
> deb
>
> Robert L. Balliot wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > *************************************************
> > Robert L. Balliot
> > 1-401-421-5763
> > Skype: RBalliot
> > Bristol, Rhode Island
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xMredXsPMw
> >  http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/contact.htm
> > *************************************************
> >
> > -----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
> >
> > --
> > Ben Haines
> > Reference/Technology Librarian
> > Forest Park Public Library
> > bhaines at forestparkpubliclibrary.org
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