Bruji

Of the books I've entered, roughly half haven't pulled LCC numbers. I tried adding the Library of Congress as a z39.50 server, and that helped a bit, but I'd like to be getting 90-100%. I could always add them manually, I suppose, but my laziness would probably end up getting in the way.

Any suggestions for ways to increase the number of LCC results would be appreciated.

thanks.
d

Could you give us a few sample titles of entries where the LOC didn't send the LCC number along? That way we can take a look at the information and hopefully figure out why the LCC is missing. Thanks!

Kudos for the super-quick reply!

I'm not sure what info you need, so I'll give title;author(s);ISBN; if you need something else, or in a specific format, let me know.

Examples:

Empire and Beyond ; Antonio Negri ; 9780745640488
Political Theology ; Carl Schmitt ; 9780226738895
Precarious Life ; Judith Butler ; 9781844675449
Multitude ; Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri ; 9780143035596
The Parasite ; Michel Serres ; 9780816648818

I can provide more if needed.

I've looked up most of these in the LOC database manually, and it gives call numbers for each.

Also, I just noticed that in cases where the book is translated, BP is pulling the translator's name for the author; is there any way that I could fix that?

Thanks much.
d

Thanks for the samples. We've updated the LoC plug-in to a new access point so do give the beta version a try and see how the search works for you there.

Any news on this front? I'm trying to pull up LOC numbers and getting about the same fail rate.

Martin

Hi Martin,

This should not be a problem in the latest version. Could you please give us some examples of searches that do not return the LCC number.

I have entered 589 books so far. Of those books only 62 of them have grabbed the LCC. For what it is worth, I have waxed and waned in my love affair with both Bookpedia and another program I have (the two together would be my perfect program, LOL). Neither of them are able to grab the LCC with a high success rate. I know the books I have entered in my systems are in the LOC database; I have been to the LCC search site and typed in a few ISBNs from my book and know that they are there.

Could you please give us a few examples of titles where the LCC wasn't send along with the rest of the information? That way we can take a look at them to try and figure out why it is that the LCC is missing. Thanks!