Content Cafe Integration with Koha
Some of our partners subscribe to Baker & Taylor's Content Cafe. Depending on your subscription, this integration can provide enhancements like cover images, author notes, and reviews. We suggest checking with Baker & Taylor to understand exactly what your subscription covers.
If you have a subscription, you should have a username and password for Baker & Taylor. If not, you can reach out to your B&T representative for this information.
In Koha, you can go into the Administration module and search the Global system preferences for "baker" to pull up the Enhanced Content.
You can also go to Administration > System Preferences > Enhanced Content and scroll to Baker & Taylor.
Once there, you'll want to make sure that BakerTaylorEnabled is set to 'Add' and your BakerTaylorUsername and BakerTaylorPassword system preferences are filled in.
Once enabled, you'll see a "Content Cafe" hyperlink on your item records.
When you click on the "Content Cafe" hyperlink, it will take you to these enhanced options. Depending on the item and your Content Cafe package, various additional options will be available (i.e. some will have only cover image, some will have cover image and author notes, some will have cover image and reviews, etc.).
You can further click into each available option.
Here is what the 'Author Notes' link for this item looks like, for example:
If you want to create a shortcut to have your cover images jump automatically to the Content Cafe enhancements in the item record, you can fill in the URL in the BakerTaylorBookstoreURL preference.
Use this template to generate the URL using your individual Baker & Taylor ID and Password in the bold sections of the below URL:
contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafeClient/ContentCafe.aspx?UserID=IDHERE&Password=PASSWORDHERE&ItemKey=
You do not need to include "https://" since Koha already has this filled in.
Here is how the information will display when you click on the cover image in the item record:
If you want to create a shortcut to have your cover images jump automatically to an enlarged book cover in the item record, you can fill in the URL in the BakerTaylorBookstoreURL preference using the below URL:
contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?UserID=IDHERE&Password=PASSWORDHERE&Return=T&Type=L&Value=
You do not need to include "https://" since Koha already has this filled in.
Here is how the information will display when you click on the cover image in the item record:
More Information from the Koha Manual
Here is the link to the documentation about this integration in the Koha Manual.
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