Trying to add book, but nothing found

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Trying to add book, but nothing found

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1LA2
Apr 16, 2015, 5:25 am

As already described here,
https://se.librarything.com/topic/190089
I tried to add books by entering an ISBN, author, or title, and picked the source "LIBRIS" (Swedish union catalog) or "BIBSYS" (Norwegian union catalog), but all that came up was "nothing found". This is nonsense, since these catalogs do have entries for the terms I was searching for. And they do return hits for some other search terms. For example, "Shakespeare" is found, but "Hemingway" is not found. When I last added books, some weeks ago, it worked fine, as it has always done before. But now something is broken.

2ccatalfo
Apr 16, 2015, 10:52 am

>1 LA2: Thanks for reporting -- I will take a look.

3ccatalfo
Apr 16, 2015, 1:36 pm

>1 LA2: Ok I've found the error: a character encoding issue which is why it's only intermittently showing up. Working on fixing.

4ccatalfo
Apr 17, 2015, 2:54 pm

>1 LA2: OK I *think* this may be fixed?? (I hope).

I found this link http://www.kb.se/libris/teknisk-information/libris-via-Z3950/

which seems to be saying that they have a newer Z39.50 database which returns records in UTF-8.

I've switched our settings to use that server instead and that is now bringing back what appear to be correctly-encoded results.

Please post back if you see problems or have difficulties; it's entirely possible something else will need to be tested/switched on LibraryThing's side of things.

5LA2
Apr 20, 2015, 10:54 am

It works a lot better now.

6LA2
May 27, 2015, 3:20 pm

Today I was able to add one book (using Libris as the source), but on the second book, the same "nothing was found" is all that comes up. And it doesn't seem to matter which book I search for. Even searching for the first book (which I successfully added) now brings up "nothing was found".

7ccatalfo
May 29, 2015, 8:40 am

>6 LA2: Well that is indeed odd, especially the second time searching.

I will see if I can replicate and see what's going on.