[LM_NET] HIT: ISBNs

[Cheryl Youse <cyouse@GMAIL.COM>]

Other inquiring minds wanted to know also.  Here are the answers I
received.  Thanks all!!


SBNs started showing up in the 70's, and ISBNs in the late 70's/early 80's.
Those were the 10-digit ones, and the 13-digit ones started a few years ago.



The International Standard Book Number, or ISBN, is a unique, numeric

commercial book identifier based upon the 9-digit Standard Book

Numbering (SBN) code created by Gordon Foster, now Emeritus Professor of

Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin, for the booksellers and

stationers W.H. Smith and others in 1966.



They were used well before the new millennium. I used to catalog books by
hand (typing catalog cards on a typewriter) in the early 90s and remember
using them.



ISBN is a creation of BISAC (Book Industry Standards and Communications
committee) which is part of BISG (Book Industry Study Group).



BISG was created in 1975. http://www.bisg.org/about_us/history.html



BISAC began in 1980 as a result of a meeting to promote the use of the ISBN
in the publishing industry.

http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/isbn/resources/index.asp



The ISBN system is run by the publishing industry not by any government
agency.



1970.


-- 
Cheryl Youse, MLS
Media Specialist
Colquitt County High School
Moultrie, GA
cyouse@gmail.com

--------------------------------------------------------------------
Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law.
  You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings
  by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book.
To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu
In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET  2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL
 3) SET LM_NET MAIL  4) SET LM_NET DIGEST  * Allow for confirmation.
 * LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/
 * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/
 * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/
 * LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html
 * LM_NET Wiki: http://lmnet.wikispaces.com/
--------------------------------------------------------------------