Andrew Gray wrote:
> On 08/11/2007, Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_jhu.edu> wrote:
>
> The problem is that we're looking at DVDs and videos here - things
> that don't tend to have standardised numbers. A link between IMDB id
> (which is probably a stable number) and reference number would be
> marvellous, but do those reference numbers exist?
>
> (This is an honest question. I don't deal with LCCNs or OCLC numbers,
> generally speaking - does audiovisual material often get one of
> these?)
>
Any cataloging record that you downloaded from OCLC has a oclcnum. Any
cataloging record that was created by the Library of Congress has an
lccn (Library of Congress Control Number).
Many/most (but not all) of the cataloging records here in the US in
many/most (but not all) of our library's catalogs have one or both of
these. Except I'm not sure if LC does much video cataloging, so video
records might not generally have LCCNs. For that matter, I can't say for
sure that most US video records will have oclc accession numbers either,
but it's worth investigating, and I suspect a fair number do. As far as
outside of the US where people don't neccesarily use OCLC... I assume
most European countries use some kind of cooperative cataloging, and
their records have some kind of cooperative cataloging identifier
number? But I really don't know.
Jonathan
> --
> - Andrew Gray
> andrew.gray_at_dunelm.org.uk
>
>
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Johns Hopkins University
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Received on Thu Nov 08 2007 - 17:13:00 EST