Library and/or book catalog setup with ISBN import

modul - March 29, 2009 - 10:46

Is there a sensible set of modules which helps in constructing a library and/or book catalog site? One of the key features of this site would have to be a way to input book information on the basis of the ISBN, i.e. a user wanting to add a book would only have to fill in the ISBN, and some module would then log on to a major library (say, Library of Congress) to fetch all required information. My guess is this would have to be done on the basis of MARC cards. In doing so, the cataloger would only have to type the ISBN and not the tedious bulk of bibliographic information. So, basically, I guess I'm looking for a module (or combination) which knows how to handle ISBN numbers and which knows how to collect information from the major MARC-based catalogs of the world. This is the way www.librarything.com works. Any information would be welcome.

Hello world. Still hoping to

modul - March 30, 2009 - 21:06

Hello world. Still hoping to get some enlightenment...

It's quiet out here... No one

modul - April 2, 2009 - 09:41

It's quiet out here... No one with some information on ISBN numbers as the basis for bibliographic data?

Possible import modules

eyedream - April 8, 2009 - 14:47

Off the top of my head, there's Bookpost:
http://drupal.org/project/bookpost

And Marc:
http://drupal.org/project/marc

I don't know if they'll meet your needs, but if you haven't seen them yet, maybe they'll help.
A lot of people use the Biblio module as their jump-off point too.

Create From Web module

janusman - June 15, 2009 - 03:39

The Create from web module can create nodes from an Amazon ASIN or an ISBN.

You could toss in the (beta) Library module and make nodes behave as "assets", meaning you could check them out to your patrons and track who's got what using Drupal.

 
 

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