[MD] Food for Thought

[MarshaV]

At 08:13 AM 12/29/2006, you wrote:
>Quoting MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>:
>
> > I'm sure you know you can request any book through your local library
> > via the interlibrary loan system.  It shouldn't cost you
> > anything.  All you need is the title, author and isbn#.  It's one of
> > the systems that makes this country great.  It's one of the reasons I
> > decided to get my master's degree in library science.  Hail to the
> > mighty book!!!
>
>Hi Marsha,
>
>What's an isbn# and how do you find it? Thanks.
>
>Platt

Hi Platt,

ISBN means International Standard Book Number. You could let the 
librarians lookup the isbn number.  I'm sure they'd do that.  I 
usually find it on Amazon.  Find the book and than page down to the 
product detail.  There seems to be a new isbn-13, I'd get both numbers.

Here is a page with also sorts of info about the 
isbn:  http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/isbn/us/isbnqa.asp

Here is info from wikipedia on the Interlibrary Loan 
service:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlibrary_loan

It's a wonderful service.


Marsha