[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bad image for book! How to remove?

[Victoria Bush]

The ISBN is right. I'm using the default image provider, which I  
assume is Amazon. Is Open Library more reliable? I did see a  
discussion on using Open Library as the default instead when searching  
for solutions.

-Vicki


On Jul 6, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Dan Scott wrote:

> 2009/7/6 Victoria Bush <vbush at ilstu.edu>:
>> For some reason I have a book jacket image that does not match the  
>> book in
>> question. How can I delete that from the record?
>>
>> (And it would be nice if there was a command for the record that  
>> would allow
>> me to fix that within the software, rather than having to hunt  
>> through the
>> database.)
>
> If the ISBN is wrong in the MARC record, you can fix the MARC record.
>
> If the ISBN is correct, but your book jacket image provider provides
> the wrong book jacket, ask them to fix their mistake. Or switch to a
> different book jacket image provider.
>
> Otherwise, there's currently no way to turn added content on or off
> for a given title in the database. Well, you could effectively turn it
> off by deliberately providing a non-existent ISBN... but that's rather
> ugly. No sense in blaming the poor MARC record or Evergreen for the
> book jacket image provider's mistake.
>
> -- 
> Dan Scott
> Laurentian University

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Victoria Bush
Opscan Evaluation Manager
Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology
vbush at ilstu.edu