Roll Your Own Catalog Card
September 6th, 2006
I spent a little time last night putting together a little virtual card catalog card generator. Insomnia? Maybe a little.
At any rate, I wanted to share the love and let the people of the world generate their own card catalog images. Usage is fairly straight-forward. Just fill out the info you’d like to see on the card and make it. Obviously, it doesn’t pull any bibliographical data from anywhere, so that leaves a lot up to your imaginations…
Please be kind to it and don’t try to incorporate this service into your own OPACs directly from here (you never know). I’ve provided the source code for that if you’re so inclined.
Enjoy!
Reference:
- Creating a virtual card catalog
- Source code for virtual card catalog images
- Share your Personal Card Catalog
** Update 9/7/2006 **
Fixed the apostrophe slash bug.
That’s so cool! I’ll be playing with this for a while :)
Have fun! :)
I’ve started a flickr pool:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/catalogcards/
Hello! Thanks for the great toy. I’ve made several cards for my blogs.
Genial, estupendo… Me parto de la risa..
This is divine. Thank you!
aha! this is a wicked cool site. i do have a problem, how can i save the image in jpeg format?
How do I get the card generator to work?
roll your own card catalog baby>>>>
can you send the source code????
Yikes! What happened to the catalog card generator? I love this thing!
JFW
Yikes - what happened to the link? I’ll be broken hearted if this goes offline - I have been recommending it to fellow artists, and want to include it on my new website: susiejefferson.com. There are a lot of people out there in love with this gadget, so PLEASE fix it! Thanks so much….
Hi Guys,
Yes, I intend to fix it. I noticed that it was broken last night after Joan’s comment. So please be patient and I’ll have it back up as soon as I can get a few minutes to work on it.
J.
Hi John,
Is your card generator down again? Tried to use it tonight and its not there.
Thanks,
staci
Dear John:
I asked before if there was a way to save the card I generated as a .jpg, or if not how else I can create an image, so I can include it on my librarian blog page. Every attempt I try to create a link or image setup, it falls back to the code and doesn’t show a thing… :(
This is awesome. I was just thinking “I wonder if there is a site out there that will let me type in whatever I want, and make it look like a library catalog card.” And here it is. You are brilliant, and I love the Internet. :)
Love this thing…but it won’t show any of the scribbles I try to include…whats up?