<div>Saw your post on the Koha list. </div><div> </div><div>Some publishers have indeed prepended 978 to their shorter ISBNs but for other publishers, the 13 and 10 digit ISBNs are different, so your matching rule would not work well.</div>
<div> </div><div><div>For example, the book Running with Scissors: </div><div><li><b>ISBN-10:</b> 0312938853</li><li><b>ISBN-13:</b> 978-0312938857</li></div></div><div> </div><div>Add to that the problem of having multiple ISSNs in many records. Some OCLC records for a book will list in the the hardback, paperback, cased set, and ebook ISBNs all in 020$a fields for one of those versions. Some ebook vendor-supplied records put the hardcover ISBN in the 020$a and don't list the electronic version's ISBN at all. </div>
<div> </div><div>Which is to say, the 3 digit offset is not going to work well at all. <br clear="all"></div><div>Happy Boxing Day!<br>-- <br>Stacy Pober<br>Information Alchemist<br>Manhattan College Library<br>Riverdale, NY 10471<br>
<a href="mailto:stacy.pober@manhattan.edu" target="_blank">stacy.pober@manhattan.edu</a><br>
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