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1EGBERTINA
Hello,
Many of my books don't have ISBNs. I have seen the numbers of Library of Congress- but have been ignoring them. Finally, I gazed with vacuous intent at the Acronyms and found the one that matched. ...But, ...
it had a zero in it- where my book had a dash.
Is this a typo? Or is it a common practice? Are they interchangeable? Is their a preference for one, over the other???
This the number, captured from the book I entered, here, at LT. 64013810
The book is: THROUGH THESE ARCHES ... by KATHERINE MILHOUS.
and my books reads: 64-13810
Thank You
Eg
Many of my books don't have ISBNs. I have seen the numbers of Library of Congress- but have been ignoring them. Finally, I gazed with vacuous intent at the Acronyms and found the one that matched. ...But, ...
it had a zero in it- where my book had a dash.
Is this a typo? Or is it a common practice? Are they interchangeable? Is their a preference for one, over the other???
This the number, captured from the book I entered, here, at LT. 64013810
The book is: THROUGH THESE ARCHES ... by KATHERINE MILHOUS.
and my books reads: 64-13810
Thank You
Eg
2AnnieMod
Nope,not a typo :)
LCCNs have two different formats. One is YY-number. The other one is YY(padding zeros so the number has 6 characters)number. :) Same number, two ways to write it based on when it was issued (and the LOC site allows both on a lot of places but the padded format is the unique identifier so this is how it gets passed back:)
See https://www.loc.gov/marc/lccn_structure.html and https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/ui/en_US/htdocs/help/numbers.html
especially: "Serial number: six digits; for LCCNs assigned through 2000, serial numbers with fewer than six digits are right-justified and padded with zeros. Beginning in 2001, hyphens separating the year and serial number on LCCN displays were removed."
So if you have 64-10, this will get padded to 64000010 for example. In your case a single 0 was needed to fill the 6 characters allowed for the serial number so it just came where - used to be; for books earlier in the year, more zeros would have been needed.
LCCNs have two different formats. One is YY-number. The other one is YY(padding zeros so the number has 6 characters)number. :) Same number, two ways to write it based on when it was issued (and the LOC site allows both on a lot of places but the padded format is the unique identifier so this is how it gets passed back:)
See https://www.loc.gov/marc/lccn_structure.html and https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/ui/en_US/htdocs/help/numbers.html
especially: "Serial number: six digits; for LCCNs assigned through 2000, serial numbers with fewer than six digits are right-justified and padded with zeros. Beginning in 2001, hyphens separating the year and serial number on LCCN displays were removed."
So if you have 64-10, this will get padded to 64000010 for example. In your case a single 0 was needed to fill the 6 characters allowed for the serial number so it just came where - used to be; for books earlier in the year, more zeros would have been needed.
