The New Books List Michael Doran, Systems Librarian Ex Libris Southwest Users Group February 6, 2008...

The New Books ListThe New Books List

Michael Doran, Systems Librarian

Ex Libris Southwest Users GroupFebruary 6, 2008 – Santa Ana College

Michael Doran, Systems Librarian [email protected]

An unofficial WebVoyáge add-on


The “New Books” tab


New Books search results


Link into WebVoyáge record


New Books search results


Why implement it?

Provides a useful service Easy to install Fully automated Maintenance-free after initial setup Integrates into WebVoyáge Many built-in configuration options Open source software, so it’s customizable It’s free…


Can’t beat free…


Can you implement it?

Why not? Over 300 current users, many of them

small and/or special libraries Extensive documentation

Detailed installation instructions Helpful commenting in Perl scripts Website with “About” pages

(Limited) support from developer


Installation in a nutshell Download “tarball” and put on server Uncompress/extract files Copy files to proper locations Test newbooks.cgi

works “out of the box” Configure newbooks.pl

To generate your own newbooks.txt Edit configuration parameters in:

newbooks.ini newbooks.English

Set up a cron job to run newbooks.pl (or a “Scheduled Task” on Windows)

Add “New Books” tab via opac.ini


Download…


Download the “tarball”


Uncompress/extract files (on server)rocky: /tmp => gzip -d -c newbooks-6.1.tar.gz | tar xvf -x newbooks-6.1, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocksx newbooks-6.1/CHANGES, 18390 bytes, 36 tape blocksx newbooks-6.1/English-alt.gif, 855 bytes, 2 tape blocksx newbooks-6.1/English.gif, 889 bytes, 2 tape blocksx newbooks-6.1/Finnish.gif, 551 bytes, 2 tape blocksx newbooks-6.1/INSTALL, 14795 bytes, 29 tape blocksx newbooks-6.1/dope.sh, 3512 bytes, 7 tape blocksx newbooks-6.1/README.unicode, 2202 bytes, 5 tape blocksx newbooks-6.1/Swedish.gif, 898 bytes, 2 tape blocksx newbooks-6.1/Welsh.gif, 967 bytes, 2 tape blocksx newbooks-6.1/newbooks.English, 10210 bytes, 20 tape blocksx newbooks-6.1/newbooks.Finnish, 10391 bytes, 21 tape blocksx newbooks-6.1/newbooks.Language, 9350 bytes, 19 tape blocksx newbooks-6.1/newbooks.Swedish, 10280 bytes, 21 tape blocksx newbooks-6.1/newbooks.Welsh, 10465 bytes, 21 tape blocksx newbooks-6.1/newbooks.cgi, 45364 bytes, 89 tape blocksx newbooks-6.1/newbooks.ini, 13972 bytes, 28 tape blocksx newbooks-6.1/newbooks.pl, 27142 bytes, 54 tape blocksx newbooks-6.1/newbooks.txt, 126550 bytes, 248 tape blocksrocky: /tmp =>


Perl scripts + a “database”

Main programs (Perl scripts) newbooks.pl => extraction program newbooks.cgi => web interface

Configuration files (also Perl scripts) newbooks.ini newbooks.English (etc…)

Flat-file “database” newbooks.txt

Installation instructions and other help files


Version 6.1


A quick test of newbooks.cgi


Version 6.1

Copy these files to this directory on your WebVoyáge server:

/m1/voyager/xxxdb/webvoyage/cgi-bin/

(your db name, natch)


Type New Books URL into browserhttp://your-server.univ.edu/cgi-bin/newbooks.cgi


Version 6.1

Copy newbooks.pl to this directory on your Voyager database server:

/m1/voyager/xxxdb/sbin/

(your db name, natch)


Edit the newbooks.pl script

Required … Your Oracle read-only username & password Your “xxxdb” database name

Optional … Intervals (weeks or months) Lag time File transfer etc…


Version 6.1


Configure search interface


Configure search interface, cont.

For examples, see:http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/autolist/configexamples.html


Version 6.1


The “New Books” tab

http://your-server.univ.edu/cgi-bin/newbooks.cgihttp://your-server.univ.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi


Version 6.1Add extra HTML code to “Tab_Text=Course Reserves”

in the Course_Reserve_Search_Page stanza

A tip o’ the hat toAlan Keely


Common installation pitfalls newbooks.pl script

Finding the DBI/DBD modules Solution: using the right Perl path Run the “dope.sh” script to troubleshoot

Transfer of newbooks.txt file Small libraries usually don’t have this problem

because they have a single Voyager server Not (really) a New Books List script issue

newbooks.ini configuration file Location matching “fragments”

Look at how others have done it (view source)


Prerequisites

On Voyager database server Perl Perl DBI module Perl DBD::Oracle module

On WebVoyáge server Perl

This stuff is already on your system!


What’s a “new” book?

item.create_date between (sysdate - 35) and (sysdate - 7) and(mfhd_master.create_date between (sysdate - 35) and (sysdate - 7) or mfhd_master.update_date between (sysdate - 35) and (sysdate - 7))

SQL query 1 (in newbooks.pl) retrieves physical items


What’s a “new” book?

mfhd_master.create_date between (sysdate - 35) and (sysdate - 7) andelink_index.record_type in ('M') and elink_index.link is not null

SQL query 2 (in newbooks.pl) retrieves electronic-only items

For more info see:http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/autolist/secure/sql.htm


Installation best practices Read the documentation Make copies of files before editing

For more information...

Go to the New Books List website:

http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/autolist/

Known issues Dupe 856’s => dupe new book listings


Questions?

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