Add link to course books in library
planned
A
Alexa Murray
Yale Course Selection includes links to the course textbooks from the bookstore. It would be cool if this was used to link to the books' availability in the library on CourseTable. I asked the library if they have an API, but I don't think I've gotten a response from them yet. It would also be cool to have a field in the course listing that previews an availability level at the library (if the library has the book, does it have many copies or just a few? does it have an online version in addition to a print version?)
Joshua Chen
planned
Joshua Chen
under review
A
Alexa Murray
It sounds like it might be awhile before the library is able to get back about the availability of an API, but if coursetable can include results about a search on a website, it might be possible to do anyway. As long as the ISBN for the books linked to a course in course search can be obtained, then a search of the library using https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog?q=[INSERT ISBN HERE] should return, at the very least, whether or not the book is carried directly in the library, which is something at least. (It seems like each listing in the search results is called an entry.)