<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>--Tim</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 2:56 PM Galen Charlton <<a href="mailto:gmc@equinoxoli.org" target="_blank">gmc@equinoxoli.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 2:45 PM Tim Means via Eg-newdevs <<a href="mailto:eg-newdevs@list.evergreen-ils.org" target="_blank">eg-newdevs@list.evergreen-ils.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>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?</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>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?</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>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 (<a href="https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/search" target="_blank">https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/search</a>) would be another possibility.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Galen<br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Galen Charlton<br>Implementation and IT Manager<br>Equinox Open Library Initiative<br><a href="mailto:gmc@equinoxOLI.org" target="_blank">gmc@equinoxOLI.org</a><br><a href="https://www.equinoxOLI.org" target="_blank">https://www.equinoxOLI.org</a> <br>phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)<br>direct: 770-709-5581<br><a href="http://evergreen-ils.org" target="_blank"></a></div></div></div>
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