Andrew Isherwood voyager.aber.ac.uk Introduction Bi-lingual institution Approximately 10,000 students Voyager self-hosted Bi-lingual Tomcat OPAC Approximately 800,000 items Two support staff Christiane Kloos Andrew Isherwood Where are we? Andrew Isherwood - Aberystwyth University voyager.aber.ac.uk What it does Retrieves additional item information from the catalogue. Displays it. How it looks 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 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. Andrew Isherwood - Aberystwyth University voyager.aber.ac.uk What it does Runs hourly Processes current crcnotes.system.inp Sendsnotices to those withaddresses Creates PDF letters for those who dont Archives input file s PDF to nominated recipient How it does it Perl script running as a cron job Uses additional Perl modules: PDF::API2::Simple MIME::Lite Templating fors and letters Multilingual support Full logging The future SMS Investigating sending item due notices to patrons Fines System automatically sends patrons fine information Thank you Andrew Isherwood THE END Thank you Andrew Isherwood THE END