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

[Tim Means]

No no I wouldn't even consider OCLC/Google if *both title & isbn were
available from input; the title could just be used in Evergreen in that
case.

The wording of the original post suggested to me an interest in being able
to use a file that only had ISBN input, which I could imagine, because to
make lists of donations as quickly as possible I used to scan donations
that had UPCs, all while Windows Notepad was the active window, and the
scanning would enter the ISBNs into the text file, but only the ISBNs.

Yes, thanks for the LOC suggestion, which reminds me that Evergreen speaks
Z39.50, but I don't know much about it, I was circ not cat. Taking a look
around the Evergreen docs, I found out about ISBN searches with SuperCat,
and that looks more like my speed.

--Tim

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 2:56 PM Galen Charlton <gmc at equinoxoli.org> wrote:

> 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
> --
> Galen Charlton
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> Equinox Open Library Initiative
> gmc at equinoxOLI.org
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