[OPEN-ILS-DEV] How to add a book(s) and DVDs etc?

[evergreen at copelan.com]

My experience (limited) so far is that the LOC has some ISBN13s but the ISBN10 is more common.  In 
some cases for my older books (published in the 1960s and earlier) the search has to be by author 
(last name, First name) or title.  LOC has some records without an ISBN at all.  When entering the 
ISBN I leave out spaces and dashes.  

RobertC

On Wed Jun 11 15:51 , 'Jason Etheridge' <jason at esilibrary.com> sent:

>> Thanks Jason ! This is most helpful. I see for the Z39.50 import require a
>> username and password. Is there a default username password I can enter?
>
>You should be able to leave those blank for the Library of Congress.
>
>> Which ISBN do I enter ISBN-13 or ISBN-10, do I enter with all the dashes
>> e.g. 0-672-32947-6.
>
>I'm not sure, but I would just try them and see.  Experiment away, and
>if you break something, good!  Let us know and we can fix it.
>
>Keep in mind that the Library of Congress may not have records for all
>the titles in your collection.  At that point, you could either create
>them from scratch, or delve into adding other Z39.50 resources.  If
>you have data for your collection in an electronic format already, say
>as a spreadsheet, you can likely get a programmer on this list to help
>you automate the migration of that data.
>
>In fact, I believe someone has already written such scripts for
>pulling data based on ISBN in batch.
>
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