[Eg-newdevs] Eg-newdevs Digest, Vol 56, Issue 1

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 2:45 PM Tim Means via Eg-newdevs <
eg-newdevs at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> 1) If the specific ISBN is not found in the catalog, but a book of the
> same title is in the catalog, do we want to present that title as a
> positive search result?
>

Do you mean if the input file also includes a title column? Probably, given
the textbook lookup example in one of the comments on the bug.

If you mean checking the ISBN in the catalog, then if not found, looking up
its title in some other database, then searching the Evergreen catalog for
that title (or title + author)? That might be stretching the chain a bit
too far; at the very least, I'd suggest that there be wording for any
results brought up that way to indicate that the results should be
double-checked.


> 2) If the answer to #1 is yes, would we have to access a resource outside
> of Evergreen like OCLC or even Google Books to get a title given ISBN?
>

OCLC would require effort and an API key to use this way, but a big Z39.50
catalog such as the Library of Congress could be searched by ISBN that way.
The Open Library Search API (https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/search)
would be another possibility.

Regards,

Galen
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Galen Charlton
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Equinox Open Library Initiative
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