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

[Victoria Bush]

Ah, I like the sneaky solution. Thanks for the pointer!

-Vicki

On Jul 9, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Hardy, Elaine wrote:

> 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
>
> J. Elaine Hardy
> PINES Bibliographic Projects & Metadata Manager
> Georgia Public Library Service
> 1800 Century Place, Ste 150
> Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304
>
> 404.235-7128
> 404.235-7201, fax
> ehardy at georgialibraries.org
> www.georgialibraries.org
> www.georgialibraries.org/pines
>
>
> ----- 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
>
>
>

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



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