{"id":4474,"date":"2017-09-26T15:25:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T21:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2017\/09\/26\/musings-from-tanya-uap-intern\/"},"modified":"2018-10-29T09:13:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T15:13:23","slug":"musings-from-tanya-uap-intern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2017\/09\/26\/musings-from-tanya-uap-intern\/","title":{"rendered":"Musings from Tanya, UAP Intern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What in the World is an ISBN?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve all seen them on the back of books: that long, mysterious number located above the barcode.\u00a0ISBN. What is that? What does it even mean?<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6433\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2015\/09\/isbns.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"ISBNs\" width=\"259\" height=\"146\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, it\u2019s a very simple equation. Just take the average number of times that you turn a page in a book divided by the number of times you will reference the book in everyday conversions plus the amount of copies you will buy your mother all to the power of 5. You remember BEDMAS, right?<\/p>\n<p>Okay\u2026 I\u2019m pulling your leg.<\/p>\n<p>Then, what is an ISBN? ISBN stands for International Standard Book Number and it is commonly referred to as the book identifier. So, it\u2019s like a fingerprint for books! Only, it\u2019s not just books that get one. Each edition, or variation, of the original book (ebooks, audiobooks, paperback, etc.) gets its own distinct number. The ISBN program is run by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collectionscanada.gc.ca\/isn\/index-e.html\" target=\"_blank\">Library and Archives Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The number itself is 13 digits long and is divided into 5 main parts.<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prefix element<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Registration group element (usually geographic)<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Registrant element (identifies the publisher)<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Publication element (the edition or format of the title)<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Check digit<\/p>\n<p>While the ISBN might seem like \u201cjust a number\u201d, it\u2019s a lot more than that and there are lots of people working behind the scenes with that number to ensure that everything runs smoothly. So, next time you come across that 13-digit monster on the back of your prized copy of <em>Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em>, give it a high five in recognition of all the information, or metadata, that it offers.<\/p>\n<p>What is metadata? Stay tuned\u2026!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What in the World is an ISBN? We\u2019ve all seen them on the back of books: that long, mysterious number located above the barcode.\u00a0ISBN. What is that? What does it even mean? Well, it\u2019s a very simple equation. Just take the average number of times that you turn a page in a book divided by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4998,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions\/4998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}