On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 1:06 PM Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 9:35 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 6/14/21 7:49 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 10:00:49AM -0700, John Sechrest wrote: > > >> I once thought that I could convert my pile of old Science Fiction books > > >> into a list with barcodes.... > > >> Sadly... None of them had barcodes.... > > > Indeed, most of the books that I will donate to Internet > > > Archive don't have bar codes, many don't have ISBNs, and > > > a few are old enough to be in the public domain. > > > > > > But if I segregate the bar-coded books onto some boxes, > > > and the older books into others, and the public domain > > > books into a third, their handling and authentication > > > tasks are simpler. > > > > > > Keith > > > > I have no idea if this is possible, but can one search the Library of > > Congress online and find, at a minimum, the LOC code, and would that be > > helpful? > > https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/ui/en_US/htdocs/help/searchBrowse.html 0691036349 https://catalog.loc.gov/browse
Change the search type from TITLES (or whatever it is) to STANDARD NUMBERS using the dropdown box, type your ISBN in the adjacent field, click Search, and you should get the LOC record. For example: 0691036349 got me Geophysical Inverse Theory by Robert L. Parker. The response URL looks like this: https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=STNO&searchArg=0691036349&searchType=1&limitTo=none&fromYear=&toYear=&limitTo=LOCA%3Dall&limitTo=PLAC%3Dall&limitTo=TYPE%3Dall&limitTo=LANG%3Dall&recCount=1 Note in particular "searchCode=STNO" and "searchArg=0691036349". From that, it might be possible to script this, particularly if you can ask it for a machine readable response. > > -- > Russell Senior > [email protected]
