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   Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵] (platypus@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 02:25:40 JST Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]

   Periodically something goes very wrong in the identifier matching systems through which we fetch things like this book cover. And thus we get … https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/17283979

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     Today's report: https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/1560106

     Assessment and management of central auditory processing disorders in the educational setting : from science to practice

     is showing the cover for a book called "Why We Win" which is interviews with "great" American coaches...

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     Good news on the Patagonian one -- no longer showing the LDS book cover:

     https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/35139921

     The others in this thread are still broken

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     it's been reported twice and I can't get Google Books to fix data that comes from some kind of bad record that was in OCLC

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     in honor of #swib22 and the librarian in the loop elements, here's my favorite "I will never get this fixed" 😭

     https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/3145301

     Title: Game of shadows : Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the steroids scandal that rocked professional sports

     Cover:

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     Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵] (platypus@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 02:25:33 JST Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]

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     I swear SOMETIMES we are able to get these fixed. Although perhaps it's fitting that the most wildly egregious are not fixed.

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     considering the quality of Jurassic Park's covers, I am kind of surprised by how BAD this one is. I know it's posthumous but like -- they expected big bucks from it.

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     Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵] (platypus@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 02:25:36 JST Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]

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     OH HECK the error is coming from inside the house*

     *from OCLC

     https://www.worldcat.org/title/patagonian-prehistory-human-ecology-and-cultural-evolution-in-the-land-of-giants/oclc/1198989641&referer=brief_results

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     Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵] (platypus@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 02:25:36 JST Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]

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     Was informed today that

     Luna : Pittsburgh's original lost Kennywood / Brian Butko

     has the cover from Michael Crichton's DRAGON TEETH.

     https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/25798361

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     Today, a new mashup:

     The title? Patagonian prehistory : human ecology and cultural evolution in the land of giants

     The cover:

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     The title: Prisoners of hope : Lyndon B. Johnson, the Great Society, and the limits of liberalism /

     The cover:

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     update, this one's been fixed in our catalog at least (the issue was with the ISBN, there'd been two conflated OCLC numbers but the OCLC numbers were separate, just combined in some table in Google Books so they fixed it) https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/33527186

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     "I will be screaming at the University of Minnesota Press in my heart," I say to a coworker who shared this one. They already determined the Press reused an ISBN.

     https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/33527186