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Version 1.0.64 - 2023-04-15 Automatically get oclc-wi if needed to obviate need to get oclc-wi via Author/Title to re-run to download DDC et al. This need automatically turns on saving all LC Identifiers, regardless of customization.

LC now gets oclc-wi if it needs it and is available immediately after the failure of ISBN/ISSN to retrieve DDC. LC now automatically does a re-do of the download of DDC et al using the oclc-wi that it just got during the aforementioned failure of ISBN/ISSN.

If you have ISBN or ISSN configured as a Composite Custom Column so you can see it just like your would DDC etc., you must also add an oclc-wi Composite Custom Column.

The oclc-wi Identifier is a peer to ISBN/ISSN as far as LC is concerned. In fact, oclc-wi is better than ISBN for downloading DDC etc. ISBN Identifiers are often unresponsive; oclc-wi Identifiers never are.

If ISBN/ISSN does not work, LC must use oclc-wi. You need to know if your book has it or not via the Composite Custom Column.

If your book does not already have oclc-wi, and LC cannot get it automatically using ISBN/ISSN, you must get oclc-wi using Author/Title.

If using Author/Title does not yield an oclc-wi that is successful getting DDC et al, you will have to resort to searching the web for alternative ISBNs for the book, and trying each of them.


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n.b. The Classify system that LC looks at to get DDC etc. states that its db is current through June 2022. Bear that in mind. LC cannot get what is not there.