Message-Id: <199808261744.KAA35032@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:55:25 -0500 From: Sonny Carter <mailto:cartersn@ALPHA.NSULA.EDU> Subject: Re: Call Numbers To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
At 07:53 AM 8/26/98 -0700, you wrote: >I have been thinking of using our library's call numbers to form the name of
>each image file for digitized images from our books. This is the only
>unique identifier I can think of for each book, as many of our books are
>very old and predate ISBN numbers, for example. Have any of you out there
>used LC or Dewey call numbers as file names? Does this work or not work?
>What is your experience?
>
>Eileen Mathias
>
> ,:::://///,:::-.
> /:''/////// ``:::`;/|/
> /' |||||| :://'`\
> .' , |||||| `/( e \
> -===~__-'\__X_`````\_____/~`-._ `.
> ~~ ~~ `~-'
>
>Eileen Mathias, Reference Librarian / Image Center Coordinator
>Academy of Natural Sciences
>Ewell Sale Stewart Library
>1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
>Philadelphia PA 19103
>(215) 299-1140
>(215) 299-1144 FAX
mailto:>mathias@say.acnatsci.org
I think it might cause some problems with any dos searches. Not everyone can use long filenames like mac or win95/98 users >
Sonny Carter Digital Imaging Specialist Cammie G.Henry Research Center Northwestern State University Natchitoches, LA 71497
You can't always get what you want, but sometimes, if you try, you can get what you need.