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

[Jonathan Rochkind]

Amazon definitely makes mistakes. If you look up the isbn on  
amazon.com, and see that there is a mistake on the website too, you  
can use a link on the Amazon page to report the error to Amazon, and  
they'll presumably fix it one way or another eventually.

Open Library is definitely going to have a lot less coverage than  
Amazon, you're going to get fewer images if you use OL instead of  
Amazon. I don't know if the error rate would be less as well, possibly.

For the Evergreen developers reading this -- have you updated your  
Amazon API code to use the cryptographic signature request form they  
require as of the middle of August?  If anyone is using software that  
does not use the crypto request by the middle of August, they're going  
to find it stops working.

Jonathan

On Jul 6, 2009, at 4:55 PM, Victoria Bush wrote:

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