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source Melinda is not available

1Anneli
Aug 5, 2025, 1:27 pm

Melinda is not working. Do you know what if the problem can be solved? Melinda is a good source since there are both fiction and non-fiction books.

Helmet is available, but it is not as comprehensive as Melinda.

There is also large database Finna, but it contains all kinds of materials besides books. I don't know if that is possible to add into LibraryThing. Address to search interface: https://finna.fi/?lng=en-gb

There is Finna API, but I don't know is that useful: https://api.finna.fi/swagger-ui/?url=%2Fapi%2Fv1%3Fswagger

2reconditereader
Aug 5, 2025, 8:39 pm

This page may provide some links that help: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Book_sources

3bnielsen
Aug 6, 2025, 1:06 am

>1 Anneli: "Melinda is not working" is less helpful than an example of something that is not working.

In general the LT sources are public available Z39.50 sources.

https://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/en/news/national-library-finland-makes-its-copy...

is from 2017, but says that Finna is not available as a data source for library systems.

4Anneli
Aug 6, 2025, 2:01 pm

I'm sorry; maybe I was asking the wrong way. I add books as a LibraryThing member to my books in LibraryThing. The best source of adding books from Finnish library databases has been Melinda. Now it is not available anymore as a source in LibraryThing.

5Anneli
Aug 6, 2025, 2:04 pm

>3 bnielsen:
I don't know how to give an example of what is the problem. I see only that Melinda is not available as a source in LibraryThing. I have no means to see what is wrong.

6bnielsen
Aug 6, 2025, 2:49 pm

>5 Anneli: Ah, you said "not working" rather than "not available as a source".

I can actually fix simple versions of "not available as a source". With a bit of luck I've gotten Melinda up as source again. Please check if you agree.

7Anneli
Aug 7, 2025, 9:40 am

>6 bnielsen:

It works now. Thank you very much!

English is not my native tongue, so I don't always find appropriate words or expressions.

8lesmel
Aug 7, 2025, 12:13 pm

There was a bug report about Finnish sources recently: https://www.librarything.com/topic/333656

Hopefully, the MELINDA dupe was not turned back on.

9bnielsen
Aug 8, 2025, 1:41 am

>8 lesmel: No, this was the original Melinda. I think the only change I made was to remove the username/password from the connection details. I couldn't find out how to put in a note about it, so I just fixed it :-)

10bnielsen
Aug 8, 2025, 1:42 am

>7 Anneli: No problem. I was just explaining why it took me some extra time before I realised that I could fix the problem :-)

11Anneli
Aug 8, 2025, 1:19 pm

>10 bnielsen:
I think that you fixed it very soon :-)