[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 13 or 10 ISBN search

[Melissa Lowenberg]

Hello,
I'm wondering if anyone has already built something to search both the 
10 & 13 digit ISBN in the 020 field?  We use BiblioFile for cataloguing 
and it performs a quick calculation for ISBN searches.  Here's an example:

Valley of Death only has a 13 digit ISBN in the marc record.  
Acquisitions staff scan the 10 digit off the book (the scanner reads it 
as a 10). The correct marc record appears in the search result set 
because the software performed the calculation to the 13.

It would save my staff a significant amount of time if we could 
discontinue scanning both ISBNs. As we are in a consortium, we do not 
know always know which ISBN another site may have used.

Thanks! It was great to put faces to names last week,
Melissa

Melissa Lowenberg, Supervisor of Support Services

TNRD Library System
#300-465 Victoria Street
Kamloops, BC V2C 2A9
Tel. 250-374-8866 Fax 250-374-8355

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