<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Salvete!</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br></div><div>>></div><div>I'm trying to use the isbn number on books as the book barcode. however, when I scan the barcode of the isbn it registers the number but does not find the book. </div><div>I think I need to set a mapping somewhere. I tried mapping the koha value items.barcode to marc 20a (isbn) but that does not seem to do the trick. We currently </div><div>do not have barcodes on our books and were planning to just add them through z39.50 as much as we could by scanning the isbn number and using this for cataloging. </div><div><br></div><div>* can anyone tell me how to make sure
that the "item barcode:" that is asked when checking out is the same as the isbn number?</div><div>* would you for any reason advise against using the isbn code and, if necessary, have several versions of the same book like this? </div><div><br></div><div>We are a pretty small library for a research institute and not a public library so our collection is "limited". </div><div>>></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"> I try not to say things like this too often, but don't do that. The ISBN is not a unique identifier: it's quite
possible to have two items with an identical ISBN. In fact, it's highly probable for this to happen with popular materials - new books acquired in duplicate. Stuart Yeates gave a wonderful talk on ISBNs and ebooks at KohaCon10, and it's available here:</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><span><a target="_blank" href="http://anitsirk.blip.tv/file/4381199/">http://anitsirk.blip.tv/file/4381199/</a></span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Cheers,</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Brooke</font></span></font></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap:break-word;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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