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

[Hardy, Elaine]

Vicki, 

You will occasionally run into this problem whichever vendor you use for cover art since they tie it to the ISBN. If it is not a problem where your added content vendor has the incorrect ISBN, you can sometimes correct it in the MARC record. As Brian said, publishers re-use the same ISBN or they put the wrong ISBN in or on the item. We had the latter problem recently where a book on ticks that was part of a children's series on harmful insects had the same ISBN on the verso of the title page as another book in the series. I added the ISBN from the publishers website listed for the book as the first 020 (retaining the other with a subfield z since it was on the piece). That triggered the correct image. 



Elaine 


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Victoria Bush" <vbush at ilstu.edu> 
To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org> 
Sent: Monday, July 6, 2009 5:14:22 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bad image for book! How to remove? 

I checked, and the wrong image appears on Amazon's website. I've 
reported it. We'll see how quickly it gets fixed. 

I'm interested in learning more about what will need to change to keep 
it working past the middle of August. This is something that our 
directors really like, so I would really like to see this continue 
working. 

-Vicki 



On Jul 6, 2009, at 4:07 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: 

> 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 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 

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



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