Hello, I was recently asked about generating lists of titles in Aspen that will be released by month for 2026. We use on order records to get those titles into our system so customers can start placing holds on them.
Does anyone have a system for pulling in the release dates right now? Anyone make use of the release dates for marketing? We have some records with MARC 263a data that was already added, but only 38% of our on order records come in with that data. And it looks like the data that is there isn't following the standard of YYYYMM and is mostly YYMM. With a few records having YYYYMMDD info. So it needs to be cleaned up in any case. https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd263.html It looks like a keyword search in aspen will pull up records based on the 263a data - 2601 or 202601 works to grab those records. So I was just looking around at how I could pull in that data for the rest of them without making extra work for our cataloger. It looks like amazon probably has the information in their APIs. I checked a few titles in Google Books API and didn't get any results, and tried Open Library also, but they don't seem to have unreleased books in my spot checks. I don't have an ISBNdb account to see if they include the street date. Thanks Josh [image: Company logo] *Josh Stompro* *IT Director * [email protected] | 218-233-3757 ext. 139 *Lake Agassiz Regional Library* 118 5th ST S Moorhead MN 56560 www.larl.org *Our mission is to enrich lives and strengthen communities.*
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