By BertienBoon on

I'm responsible for a small library, and wish to be keep track of the books like they do in a public library. (It is a school library, open for public)
So I need a cheap and simple way for keeping track of these books. It is an advantage that people who want to visit the library can browse our catalog online.

I have found some information about creating these systems for libraries, but a lot of it seems to be based on an existing database (typical software for libraries, i guess, I'm not even a librarian so all of this is also quite new to me). All I have gotten from the person who did my job before me where MS Word files with some titles, so I have nothing to start from.

How would you aproach this problem?
My first try with drupal was on another website this summer, and for this library thing I am drowning in information...

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

I wonder if Open Library and/or Library would be of help.

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BertienBoon commented

I have tried open library, but for some reason it didn't work well, I do want to try to get it working, because it would be practical for us if I only have to input the isbn.
At this point I also tried Library, but stubled upon technical diffifulties because I wanted to create books and authors wit cck. cck depends on jquery UI. The jquery UI is not working at the moment...

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nevets commented

CCK it's self does no depend on the jQuery UI.

To get jQuery UI working I have found that the latest 1.7 versions works if you use the 6.x-2.x-dev version of jQuery Update.

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zeezhao commented

You could also just create a cck type yourself with all the fields you need e.g. EAN, ISBN, Author, etc...

I have done something similar before for a bookshop I did in past, and then integrated it with ubercart. Even though what you want is a library, you could hide the price fields and then use its stock tracking for keeping number of copies in library etc.

Importing of existing titles from spreadsheet or csv file can be done using a module like node_import

Send me an email using contact form if you need help on this.

Also, you can explore http://drupal.org/project/biblio mentioned below

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jmrivero commented

Im not sure if it has the functionalities you may need but have a look at the Biblio module:
http://drupal.org/project/biblio

It has some import tools that may help you get the books loaded and cataloged in drupal.

Im a simple guy in a complex world.