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

[Andrew Morton]

Thanks Elaine!
This has been an eye opening exercise into the world of book and library information systems!

Many thanks
Andrew 



On 11 Oct 2012, at 18:47, "Hardy, Elaine" <ehardy at georgialibraries.org> wrote:

> 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.
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> ISBNs aren’t useless, they just aren’t matching points by themselves.
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> Elaine
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> J. Elaine Hardy
> PINES Bibliographic Projects & Metadata Manager
> Georgia Public Library Service
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> Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304
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> From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Morton
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:19 PM
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> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Importing from ISBN
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> So are you saying that there is no unique way to identify a publication?
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> Sort of seems like isbn is useless if that is the case....
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> Andrew
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> On 11 Oct 2012, at 15:31, "Hardy, Elaine" <ehardy at georgialibraries.org> wrote:
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> 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. 
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> 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
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> 404.235-7128
> 404.235-7201, fax
> ehardy at georgialibraries.org
> www.georgialibraries.org
> www.georgialibraries.org/pines
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Andrew Morton
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 4:36 PM
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> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Importing from ISBN
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> Yea. 
> They all seem to tally to the ISBN....
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> btw, im on a mac, so marcedit may not be available...
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> Andrew.
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> On 9 Oct 2012, at 20:59, Jason Etheridge wrote:
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> I was thinking that using the fast item add feature in Evergreen's
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> z39.50 workflow might be what makes it faster than batch loading the
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> bibs and adding holdings separately.
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> Ah, I can see that.  Andrew, are you getting unique barcodes for all
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> -- Jason
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