[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Importing from ISBN

[Hardy, Elaine]

There are ways to match an item in hand with a MARC bibliographic record. 
Catalogers use a combination of fields to do so. ISBNs are finding aids and 
can point you to the correct record but cannot stand by themselves. We use 
main title (245), edition (250), publisher (260 b), date of publication (260 
c) and pagination (300) as well as other fields for type and format.



ISBNs aren’t useless, they just aren’t matching points by themselves.



Elaine

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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
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[mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of 
Andrew Morton
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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

________________________________


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




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[mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of
Andrew Morton
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 4:36 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Importing from ISBN

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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