[Athen] Barnes and Noble and Accessible Information Management

[Wink Harner]

Marcie,

We did this at Southern Oregon University with AIMS. Haris Gunadi might
well be of some help in getting the books links set up for you. However, we
had only partial access to the BN bookstore's database/inventory. While we
successfully used their resources to import book info, we did a lot of copy
& paste from their website rather than being able to simply access an
available, complete, robust inventoried database. The bookstore just was
not as organized with their database as we would have liked. It was time
consuming at our end getting each term set up, but brilliant in the
execution of how well it worked within AIMS to manage the workflow of our
alt text book production.

You should get in touch with either Haris or his business partner about how
to set up the import features of the books in AIMS and ask about how to set
up the parameters at your end on what you need to do for manual input. If I
recall correctly, we downloaded a CSV file and had to clean it up and
upload to AIMS.

Hope this is somewhat helpful.

Wink Harner
Accessibility & Adaptive Technology Consultant
The Foreign Type
On Oct 21, 2015 12:10 PM, "Dimac, Marcie" <mdimac at kent.edu> wrote:


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> Good afternoon all,

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> Our University has recently partnered with B&N as our bookstore for all of

> our campuses.  Our office utilizes AIM (Accessible Information Management)

> as our database management system for tracking and managing accommodations

> for our students.

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> I am speaking with B&N and am trying to see if they are open to performing

> some type of sync with AIM so that when a student requests e-text, AIM is

> able to pull their book information (rather than our office manually

> locating this information for hundreds of books). They have asked me to

> reach out and see if any other Universities have used B&N with AIM.

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> Has anyone out there been able to sync this data successfully and if so,

> would you mind sharing how you completed this process?

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> Thanks!

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> Marcie Anne Dimac, M.A. Ed.

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> Coordinator, Assistive Technology

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