Sirsi iBistro

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[edit] Sirsi

[edit] Data Export

Run the following command from the UNIX command line.

selcatalog -iC -oe -e020,245,100 > ISBN_extract.out

-e020,245,100 selects the fields which are extracted to file; 020 = ISBN, 245 = Title, 100 = author

More information on the commands selitem and selcatalog is available in the Sirsi API manual.

[edit] iBistro Widget Placement

From a helpful Sirsi customer: "The file that needs modifying is called viewtop.h which is found in the /Unicorn/Webcat/Pages_deliv/Elib_revC/ directory on the Sirsi server.

This file needs to be copied from this location to the /Unicorn/Webcat/Pages_custom/Elib_revC/ directory before it is modified. The file in the custom directory is used in preference to the one in the deliv directory so the original file should be left in this directory.

Once in this location viewtop.h requires the LTFLs code '<script src="http://www.librarything.com/forlibraries/widget.js?id=....' to be added to the end of the file and the LTFL widget code to be added, dependant on where you want the widgets to be displayed on the item holdings page in the catalogue. I have included ours immediately below the '<SIRSI_Include File="dspholdings.h">' line in this file which displays a list of an item's holdings in our library service.

LTFL widgets should now display on the item holdings page in the iBistro catalogue. It may be necessary to first reload the webpage or clear the web browsers cache in order to display the LTFL widgets."

[edit] ISBN URL

http://<your catalog server>/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5/?searchdata1=MAGICNUMBER