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On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:39:06AM -0400, Ken Irwin wrote: > With some limitations, the Google Books API allows folks to access book > covers for free. (How's that working out? Anyone having luck with it?) > -- what about movie/DVD/VHS covers? Are there any free sources for those > images? > > I'd like to work up a virtual-browsing interface for our library's > pretty small collection of feature films, and I'd love to include > covers. Any ideas on how I might get them? Anyone else doing this? I've had some success with UPCs and worldcat.org for the Drexel Libraries Video Search[1]. A lot of our records lack an 024, though, so I fall back to ISBNs on Amazon, but the hit rate isn't as good there. For a collection the size of our video collection, we've considered just scanning them ourselves. Neither IMDB nor Netflix have public APIs yet. Gabriel [1] http://www.library.drexel.edu/video/