[Web4lib] new book list script

[Tom Keays]

Well... that answers that question (even before I asked it). I was
messing around trying to see if I could do just this very thing. A
mockup I did a couple of weeks ago (but then stalled out on):

http://web.syr.edu/~htkeays/library/scitech/suscilib.htm

I would love to see a version of the widget that would let me link
back to the catalog. ISBN links would work fine.

Tom


On 5/17/07, Tim Spalding <tim at librarything.com> wrote:
> 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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-- 
Tom