Thursday, August 17, 2006 02:31 CDT Salut Greg!
From just a quick look at what you said, it looks like someone's import of a Z39.50 search might have pulled up a record for another edition of the same work.
The second ISBN noted, as I am sure your librarian pointed out, is not in the format that we cataloguing staff would naturally use (hyphens are not encoded in 020). An interesting occurence: do let the listserv know if you find the ultimate cause. Bon courage! Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada P.S. As an afterthought: despite the International in ISBN, however, there are cases where the same edition published in different locations somehow ends up with different ISBNs. We had one such at a military library where I once had a contract and the publisher tried to have things 'fixed' so we ended up with 3 ISBNs for 1 edition of the same book. ============================================================ From: Greg Vickers <daehenoc@optusnet.com.au> Date: 2006/08/17 Thu AM 12:38:49 CDT To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] ISBN problem Hi all, I manage the system which hosts Koha for the French cultural center in Brisbane, Alliance Francase. (http://library.afbrisbane.com) I don't manage the information in Koha; I installed Koha and manage the server, I am not a librarian! This installation has been up and running for about three months and they have a librarian on-site who is in the process of adding all their library material to Koha. He's come across a strange problem in the last couple of days: Search the public catalog for ISBN 2914935692 and it will return a record for "Comptines" with a subtitle of "méthode de franðcais". He did not enter that subtitle, so that's the first strange thing (inserted via z39.50??) and the second strange thing is that this record shows a different ISBN: 2-03-870211X! The librarian has a suspicion that running the rebuildnonmarc.pl script may help. I read the description of what that script does and it's all Greek to me. Would that script help, or is this problem being caused by something else? Thanks, Greg _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ============================================================