[PLUG] Old books and bar codes

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Tue Jun 15 20:06:40 UTC 2021


On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 9:35 PM Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> 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

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Russell Senior
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