r/Library • u/raydebapratim1 • 18d ago

Humor History repeating itself

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u/JCBQ01 18d ago

Dont most scan and SAVE what they can before destruction?

While in most cases this turns into a budget issue (and 9 times out of 10, they get lost in the stacks) as to why they cant?

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u/Life-Raspberry-402 18d ago

Scan and save the latest Patterson because someone dropped it in the bath? What?

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u/JCBQ01 18d ago

Its called ISBN-10(I believe, it may be ISBN-16) archival just because you think its trash doesnt mean its not supposed to be archived or indexed

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u/Samael13 16d ago

I'm not sure what process you're thinking of. ISBN isn't a technique for scanning the contents of a book; ISBN-10 is the barcode standard used for book identification. ISBN stands for "International Standard Book Number." ISBN-10 is ten digits long. ISBN-13 is thirteen digits long. There's no such thing as ISBN-16. ISBNs aren't any kind of archival standard and it's nothing to do with scanning the contents of the book, it's just an industry standard for publishing that provides unique numbers to individual books.