What is it? JavaScript added to OPAC full document view calls social book network goodreads.com API and adds supplementary information to the document, like book cover, users’ ratings, users’ reviews (using own GoodReads code), and potentially others.   Author: Matyáš F. Bajger, University of Ostrava Library, matyas.bajger@osu.cz, October 2016 Licence: GNU GPL Working example: http://aleph.osu.cz…

Description This adds autocomplete suggestions to Basic search in OPAC. Suggestions are taken from ACC indexes defined by tab01.lng in BIB base and stored in oracle z01 table. How it works Autocomplete menu in OPAC is managed by JavaScript, using modified script by Timothy Groves. Through ajax, a cgi script autocomplete.cgi is called. This cgi…

Aleph – OPAC – autocomplete Description Adds autocomplete suggestions to Basic search in OPAC. Suggestions are taken from ACC indexes defined by tab01.lng in BIB base and stored in oracle z01 table. How it works Autocomplete menu in OPAC is managed by JavaScript, using modified script by Timothy Groves.  Through ajax, a cgi script autocomplete.cgi…

Description This feature allows patrons to send holdings data about items to their mobile phones. Users must simply navigate to an item's holding page and click on the button titled "Send Info via Text." They will then need to enter their phone number and cellular carrier to receive a text message with the title, location,…

Description Displays Google Book link information on OPAC's short results screen using [Old API (deprecated as of May 26, 2011) or New Google Book Search API. It can be used on all Aleph500 versions. ==== Version 2.1: December, 2011 (New Google Books API : http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/books/). Author: Michelangelo Mazzardo Marques Viana Additional author(s): Institution: Pontificia Universidade…

Description Aleph offers various sort possibilities of search results using tab_sort and www_tab_short.lng   The most important choice – relevance is missing. Another OPAC function – short-rank can be used for sorting by relevance. A JavaScript runs sort-rank func directly with words taken from user query, instead of default webpage with form. Search results are directly…

Description By connecting to Oracle through Perl using an external JavaScript, you can include more information in the Web OPAC, by consulting the table fields of the Aleph's Oracle database. In the following example is presented how to include the barcode of an item (xxx50.z30_barcode) into the Current Loans screen (www_f_eng/bor-loan-body). However, adapting the script…

Description OPAC Enhancer is a daemon written in Perl that sits between Aleph www server and Apache. It can be used to modify requests before they reach the www server and responses before they reach the client (browser). By default it is possible to do "translations" (either language-specific or global) of the results, but it…

Description: Earlier this year Bowker released Sydentics Plus which allows the embedding of enhanced data such as tables of contents and summary information without the need for pop-ups. Author: Lynn Corrigan Lynn Corrigan Additional author(s): Institution: Napier University Year: 2010 License: BSD style Short description: Use, modification and distribution of the code are permitted provided…

Description This extension to the Aleph OPAC provides links from the full record display to other related material on the catalogue. Links to other editions of the work are shown, as well as Amazon-style "people who borrowed this also borrowed..." type links based on the usage of the collections. Subject headings and classification numbers attached…