[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Importing from ISBN

[Andrew Morton]

So are you saying that there is no unique way to identify a publication?
Sort of seems like isbn is useless if that is the case....

Andrew



On 11 Oct 2012, at 15:31, "Hardy, Elaine" <ehardy at georgialibraries.org> wrote:

> ISBNs are not matching points. Publishers re-use the all the time, for
> example (this is a particular problem with children's nonfiction series
> publishers). You may reach a point where they will no longer tally with
> the item in hand. Also, older books will not have ISBNs, so depending on
> the overall collection in your library, you may find that ISBNs are not
> dependable. 
> 
> Elaine
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> 
> Yea. 
> They all seem to tally to the ISBN....
> 
> btw, im on a mac, so marcedit may not be available...
> 
> Andrew.
> 
> On 9 Oct 2012, at 20:59, Jason Etheridge wrote:
> 
>>> I was thinking that using the fast item add feature in Evergreen's 
>>> z39.50 workflow might be what makes it faster than batch loading the 
>>> bibs and adding holdings separately.
>> 
>> Ah, I can see that.  Andrew, are you getting unique barcodes for all
> your books?
>> 
>> -- Jason
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