[Sca-librarians] ISBNs (was Worldcat)

[Solveig Throndardottir]

Noble Librarians!

Greetings from Solveig! I am quite aware of the minor differences which 
can exist between ISBN numbers. The problem is that the book I am 
looking for is a Japanese book, and I am not particularly confident of 
people's ability to find it. Aside from the problem with ISBN's, the 
same edition of the same Japanese book can show up multiple times in 
WorldCat, because of differences in Romanization of title or author or 
other minor transcription problems.

> Solveig's ISBN is 4588321013 (which is, I believe: 4-588-32101-3) -- I 
> cen tell you the title's in Japanese :) and this may be why she didn't 
> give us a title (what with transliterating problems)  it is available 
> on Amazon-Japan, but don't ask me what it says :)  Since I can't cut 
> and paste those characters into firstsearch, I can't search by them.

It says that it is out of print. Otherwise, I probably would have 
simply ordered a copy for myself.  Identifying the book at all was a 
bit tricky as it was mentioned in a quote of a web page and the kanji 
for the title given in the citation was not actually correct.

									Your Humble Servant
									Solveig Throndardottir
									Amateur Scholar

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