[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Importing from ISBN

[Hardy, Elaine]

And since added content vendors rely solely on ISBNs, we often have to
request corrections to which title that added content is applied to 

Elaine

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[mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of
Jason Etheridge
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:22 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Importing from ISBN

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Andrew Morton <andymorton at btinternet.com>
wrote:
> 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....

It's useful enough for the purpose that "added content" vendors rely on it
for providing libraries reviews, jacket images, etc.

It's just not perfect by a longshot, and if you're using them as item
barcodes, you'll probably hit more complications down the road.

-- Jason