[support] D7: how to describe a library?

[Walt Daniels]

Don't try to reinvent libraries! They have been doing it for centuries.
Logon to the catalog  at your local public library and see what they do.
There are only a handful of companies that produce the software for all the
library catalogs. It is a very tough job to compete with their resources. I
once tried to put our non-profits library catalog online on our website. I
gave up and used Library Thing as a third party solution. .


On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Shérab <Sebastien.Hinderer at ens-lyon.org>wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I'm using D7 to build a catalog rerefencing books available in
> different libraries and in different formats (Audio, Digital text,
> Braille...).
>
> To achieve this I define a content type for bibliographic recors. It has
> fields for title, author, ISBN, book description. And also I consider
> using the composed_field module to define an item filed. So a
> bibliographic record will have as many item fields as there are
> available books in different libraries. Each item filed should include
> at least the type of item, (Braille, audio, etc.), the library that owns
> it and a link for getting more information.
>
> My question is: how best describing libraries in Drupal? Ideally one
> shold be able to use a library name as a taxonomy field (clicking on it
> will show all the books for which the library has at least one item of
> that book). But one may also want to associate othe rinformation to a
> library. At the minimum a link to its website, but perhaps also
> aphysical address, a phone number, perhaps even freeform text info, so
> that would suggest to create a dedicated content type for libraries but
> then I suspect that the benefits of taxonomy fields would be lost.
>
> Any comment on how to best represent libraries in particular but also on
> the general architecture described above would be warmly appreciated.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!
> Shérab.
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