GBV, a Major German consortium added
A helpful Thingamabrarian*, pointed me to connection details for the Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (GBV), the "Common Library Network of the German States," a massive consortium of libraries all over Germany.** I've added it, and it seems to work well. (I also fixed some Polish and Bulgarian character-set issues, for it and other libraries.)
According to the German Wikipedia entry, washed through Google Translate
*Whom, if she wants her LT name mentioned, should let me know.
**The states are: Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thüringen and--not, I think, a state--the Foundation of Prussian Cultural Heritage.
According to the German Wikipedia entry, washed through Google Translate
"The [GBV] is also over 50 million title data records the largest data base for listing in Germany."I am hoping you will agree this wonderful news is for Germany users in LibraryThing!
*Whom, if she wants her LT name mentioned, should let me know.
**The states are: Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thüringen and--not, I think, a state--the Foundation of Prussian Cultural Heritage.
posted by Tim at 11:07 AM
4 Comments:
Huzzah!
Now, where to get books to test it? Gotta go and buy some more ;-). Thank you, Tim!
Thanks Tim -- it worked -- except when I searched on the GBV page I found an entry with the full title, it's band 2 of a series, but the add book page only brought in the subtitle "Kolonien Galka - Kutter" At least I ended up with the correct author name, unlike entries from library sources in the US.
Now to go try another.
Sorry, didn't mean to be anonymous in the message above. I'm Kathryn, (LT kathrynnd)
Hi Tim,
GREAT!!! Thanks a lot!
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