[Web4lib] Make a shelf list searchable online?

Bruce Jensen flaco.jensen at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 02:58:43 EDT 2009


Most of you can probably do this in your sleep, so I hope you might be
able to point me toward the right book or online tutorial:

The folks at a lending library with a couple thousand titles listed on
a five-column sheet in an Excel workbook, want to make their
collection visible & searchable on the Web.  Sorting the list by
title, by author, etc. and making a static HTML page of each did not
thrill them.  They wonder if a kind of keyword-searchable OPAC is
possible.

I moved the list to Access and have built some representative queries
but am clueless where to go from here.  We have an ASP.NET-capable
server available to use, but no real VBasic nor other programming
talents to go with it.  I'd like to see a source that could step me
through putting the database on the server, making the connection to
it, building the .aspx page with the search form, and whatever else is
needed.

Any tips or models or instructive sources would be gratefully
welcomed.  Thank you,

Bruce




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