1. Andrew Isherwood voyager.aber.ac.uk

2. Introduction  Bi-lingual institution  Approximately 10,000 students  Voyager 7.0.3 self-hosted  Bi-lingual Tomcat OPAC  Approximately 800,000 items  Two support staff  Christiane Kloos  Andrew Isherwood

3. Where are we?

6. Andrew Isherwood - Aberystwyth University voyager.aber.ac.uk

7. What it does  Retrieves additional item information from the catalogue.  Displays it.

8. How it looks

10. How it does it  Javascript: Identifies the BIBID of the displayed record  Javascript: Calls Perl script  Perl: Queries database and extracts additional information, formats it as HTML table, passed back to Javascript  Javascript: Fills empty with information

11. Possibilities?  Anything really!  Use APIs to include additional data e.g. Amazon reviews Related comments on Twitter eBay availability Usage statistics The list goes on….

12. Andrew Isherwood - Aberystwyth University voyager.aber.ac.uk

13. What it does  Runs hourly  Processes current crcnotes.system.inp  Sends e-mail notices to those with email addresses  Creates PDF letters for those who don’t  Archives input file  Emails PDF to nominated recipient

14. How it does it  Perl script running as a cron job  Uses additional Perl modules: PDF::API2::Simple MIME::Lite  Templating for emails and letters  Multilingual support  Full logging

15. The future  SMS Investigating sending item due notices to patrons  Fines System automatically sends patrons fine information

16. Thank you Andrew Isherwood aai@aber.ac.uk THE END

17. Thank you Andrew Isherwood aai@aber.ac.uk THE END