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" <[email protected]> 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. > > > > ISBNs aren’t useless, they just aren’t matching points by themselves. > > > > 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 > [email protected] > www.georgialibraries.org > www.georgialibraries.org/pines > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Andrew Morton > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:19 PM > To: Evergreen Discussion Group > Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Importing from ISBN > > > > 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" <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > www.georgialibraries.org > www.georgialibraries.org/pines > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] 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 > >
