[Athen] Barnes and Noble and Accessible Information Management

[Shawn Foster]

The biggest problem with the whole equation isn't AIM- they can totally
work with a csv file upload and it's quite easy to do. The biggest problem
is the delays involved in getting information out of Barnes and Noble.
Here's how that process works here (assuming, of course, that faculty have
all been good people and put their book orders in on time...a big
assumption!):

1. I email bookstore manager to ask for booklist
2. Bookstore manager emails their corporate office to ask for approval.
3. File goes to the regional manager for approval
4. File gets sent to bookstore manager
5. Bookstore manager sends me file
6. I do quick cleanup and upload
7. Booklist changes because faculty changed their mind on a book or were
late in adding their orders - start at 1 again.

If you're in the negotiation process for their contract, push for a more
direct system. This one is ridiculous.
Good luck!
Shawn


*Shawn Foster*

Disability Resources Coordinator | U-CAM Coordinator

Southern Oregon University | 1250 Siskiyou Blvd | Ashland OR  97520
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On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Wink Harner <foreigntype at gmail.com> wrote:


> 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:

>

>> [please forgive the cross-post]

>>

>>

>>

>> Good afternoon all,

>>

>>

>>

>> 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.

>>

>>

>>

>> 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.

>>

>>

>>

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

>> would you mind sharing how you completed this process?

>>

>>

>>

>> Thanks!

>>

>> Marcie Anne Dimac, M.A. Ed.

>>

>>

>>

>> Coordinator, Assistive Technology

>>

>> Student Accessibility Services

>>

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>>

>> Kent, Ohio      44242

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>>

>> Email: mdimac at kent.edu

>>

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