<div dir="ltr">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!):<div><br></div><div>1. I email bookstore manager to ask for booklist</div><div>2. Bookstore manager emails their corporate office to ask for approval.</div><div>3. File goes to the regional manager for approval</div><div>4. File gets sent to bookstore manager</div><div>5. Bookstore manager sends me file</div><div>6. I do quick cleanup and upload</div><div>7. Booklist changes because faculty changed their mind on a book or were late in adding their orders - start at 1 again.</div><div><br></div><div>If you're in the negotiation process for their contract, push for a more direct system. This one is ridiculous.</div><div>Good luck!</div><div>Shawn</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><font color="#666666">Shawn Foster</font></span></b></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#666666"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">Disability Resources Coordinator | U-CAM Coordinator</span><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></b></font></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#666666"><span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial">Southern Oregon University</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"> </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial">| 1250 Siskiyou Blvd | Ashland OR 97520</span></span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial"><br>541-552-6213</span></font></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#666666"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B1lLvtD6xSEiY1N6V0JrN19lOHc&revid=0B1lLvtD6xSEidUp6ZlZ1TkVkSklDYVJWVWVWdUFsSEt1TUo0PQ" width="200" height="43"><br></span></font></p><div>Why I'm at SOU: <a href="http://youtu.be/Ski0MzPd5IM" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/Ski0MzPd5IM</a> <br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Wink Harner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foreigntype@gmail.com" target="_blank">foreigntype@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Marcie,</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Hope this is somewhat helpful.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p dir="ltr">Wink Harner<br>
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The Foreign Type</p>
</font></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Oct 21, 2015 12:10 PM, "Dimac, Marcie" <<a href="mailto:mdimac@kent.edu" target="_blank">mdimac@kent.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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<p>Good afternoon all,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p>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
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<p>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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<p>Has anyone out there been able to sync this data successfully and if so, would you mind sharing how you completed this process?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<u></u><u></u></p>
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