[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Covers and ISBNs

[Gordana Vitez]

Hi Brian,
 
We came across the same problem back in the summer and I think the only thing to do is ask the materials provider to switch the order. I did get a good explanation from Galen and I'll include it here:
 
"For what it's worth, arranging the 020s so that the ISBN-13 comes first, 
followed by the ISBN-10, is actually supposed to be the standard 
behavior. For example, see:

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/020-13%20plan.pdf 
http://www.ingrambook.com/isbn13/libraries/default.asp#4 

Consequently, requesting that your materials providers provide 020 
fields in the opposite order, while that all *that* non-standard, is 
nonetheless bucking the trend. Furthermore, for any records that you 
manually import, reversing the 020s just seems like a workflow step that 
is better avoided.

I recommend an alternative approach, namely consider using the 
OpenLibrary added content provider rather than the Amazon one, as it 
appears that it readily recognizes both the 10- and 13- digit forms of 
the ISBN."
 
It wasn't an option for us to use OpenLibrary for content as they do not offer DVD covers...and they are very important to the public libraries in our consortium. It is still my understanding that covers can only be retrieved from one provider. So we're in a situation where we have to go with the reversed order. 
 
I would be very interested to hear if there have been any further development regarding this issue.
 
Thanks!
Gordana

>>> Ben Shum <bshum at biblio.org> 10/6/2011 1:56 PM >>>
Hi Brian,

As far as I know, the first ISBN entry of a record will always be used to retrieve added content images.  I'm not familiar with any workarounds other than editing the records to order the information in them accordingly, but maybe someone is working on this?  Otherwise, I think that'd be a useful feature to have in the future.

-- Ben

On 10/6/2011 1:17 PM, Brian Greene wrote: 


In many cases covers won't display in our OPAC if the 13-digit ISBN is above the 10-digit ISBN in the bib record. If I switch the order of the ISBNs so that the 10-digit one is first then the cover displays. This is the case most of the time, although I have come across instances where the 13-digit ISBN displays the cover properly. Does anyone know of a fix for this? Is there a setting we can change to use a second ISBN if the first one doesn't retrieve a cover? We're running 2.1.
 
Thanks,
 
 
Brian Greene, Library Director
Columbia Gorge Community College 
The Dalles, Oregon 97058
(541) 506-6080 | www.cgcc.cc.or.us ( http://www.cgcc.cc.or.us/ ) 

-- 
Benjamin Shum
Open Source Software Coordinator
Bibliomation, Inc.
32 Crest Road
Middlebury, CT 06762
203-577-4070, ext. 113
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