One tool on our list of things required for LORLS v6 is BibGrab for which we have just finished the proof of concept.  It finds ISBNs and ISSNs from web pages and looks up their metadata on COPAC.

The main piece of functionality missing from the proof of concept is the ability to actually add an item to a reading list.  As well adding this functionality we are also aiming to make it pick up details about the web page it was initiated on so that staff can add web pages to their reading lists.

While the current source to used to lookup metadata is hard coded, the release version should have a number of sources to it can use and an order of preference for them.  This way the metadata will match that of the local LMS if it has a matching record and only try other sources if it doesn’t.