[PLUG] Old books and bar codes

[Russell Senior]

Try this: curl 'http://lx2.loc.gov:210/lcdb?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=bath.isbn=0691036349&maximumRecords=1&recordSchema=dc'

Without the single quotes around the URL you'll need to figure out how
to quote the ampersands. I took the lazy route.

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 2:34 PM Russell Senior
<russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 1:06 PM Russell Senior
> <russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> 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
> > russell at personaltelco.net