Re: [IUG] Syndetics Solutions in Catalogue AND 13 digit ISBNs

["Robert F. Rapp" <rfrapp at mf dot lib dot wi dot us>]

Alan Hagyard wrote:

> On 6/15/07, Robert F. Rapp <rfrapp at mf dot lib dot wi dot us> wrote:
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> > Sounds like you are still running R2005 or 2006LE.  You need R2006.
> > However, R2006 sends 13, so a 10 with "garbage" after it may also cause
> > problems.  There is a pathc to fix this, so 10 sends 10 and 13 sends 13.
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> Ours sends more than 13 (10 with "garbage"), but  Syndetics  works 
> with it:
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> http://syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=1578633281%20(pbk.)/
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>  -- Alan
Well, Syndetics might, but if the ISBN10 plus garbage is first, and you 
use any other function that sends the ISBN "out" (Z39.50, links to other 
databases), it may fail.  That is why I mentioned the patch, which will 
then send 10 of an ISBN10 and 13 of an ISBN13, as it should have in the 
first place.  With Amazon, the covers worked (they ignore anything after 
the first 10) but the index searches failed.  And, of course, presently 
Amazon believes they will never need to support ISBN13 for their ASIN, 
which stance I hope they do not maintain too long.

Rob

--
Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, 
verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.
-Heinrich Heine

Robert F. Rapp
Information Technology Librarian
Menomonee Falls Public Library
rfrapp at mf dot lib dot wi dot us