Comments on: Using Book Data Providers to Improve Services to Patrons

By: Josh Gachnang

Josh Gachnang — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:16:07 +0000

One of the links at the bottom is broken. DiveIntoPython.org is permanently down. It has been mirrored at DiveIntoPython.net. Please update your link. Thanks!

By: Mike Beccaria

Mike Beccaria — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:38:45 +0000

Carol,
The script in the article is a shortened and simplified script relative to the one I am using in my production setting. I wanted to make the article as simple to read and (re)use as possible, so I tried not to make it too complicated. Modifying the script to take an input file from a specific ILS or file format shouldn’t be too hard. The principles are the same.

By: Course

Course — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:16:45 +0000

Could you provide me with some address that provides books

By: Carol Bean

Carol Bean — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:00:58 +0000

I am a bit confused by the initial steps of the process. In the Implementation section, it says,

“1. Each night, our ILS outputs a pipe delimited text file to a web accessible folder on the server. The file contains the title, author, and ISBN of books that are newly added to our catalog.”

But in the Process section, (Step 1: Reading the ISBN text file), it states,

“Given a text file of ISBN numbers separated by carriage returns, we can read these items into a Python list (also called an array in other programming languages).”

Where does the text file of ISBN numbers separated by *carriage returns* come from? Is there another step which converts the pipe delimited file to a carriage return delimited file, or is this conversion handled by one of the python modules?

Thanks,
Carol

By: Matt Weaver

Matt Weaver — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:37:11 +0000

I am using a Drupal module called “Book Post”: http://drupal.org/project/bookpost in an online community for readers (just began testing). Via Book Post, an ISBN entered into a content type returns cover art and publishing info. The field is available in the Views module, allowing for the slide show on the front page.

Matt Weaver
Web Librarian
Westlake Porter Public Library (Westlake, Ohio)