[Evergreen-catalogers] New member orientation questions

[Michelle Echols]

Sorry, I should probably direct this to the Spark PA listserv instead.

Apologies!
Michelle Echols

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Michelle Echols <mechols at monroepl.org>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am part of the Eastern Monroe Public Library, which just switched over
> to Evergreen/SparkPA today. I have a few cataloging questions now that we
> are part of a consortium.
>
> Let's say I am looking to add volumes to our library for "Captain
> Underpants and the wrath of the wicked Wedgie Woman" by Dav Pilkey to our
> library. When I search by title I run into what seem to me to be a number
> of duplicated records. I have a ©2001 Scholastic paperback edition in front
> of me. I searched by title and the records with these TCNs were returned:
>
> TCN         Publisher    # Pages
> 6308947 - Scholastic, 175
> 5024304 - Scholastic, 175
> 6411723 - Scholastic, 165
> 3117341 - Scholastic, 165
> 4022287 - Scholastic, 159
>
> 2097955 -  Blue Sky,  176
> 6616136 -  Blue Sky,  176
> 421675 -    Blue Sky,  165 [11]
>
> All are ©2001.
>
> Aside from the page numbers the records of the Scholastic editions are
> more or less the same. I can see from the copy I have that pagination of
> the book ends at page 165, but there are actually 175 pages of story and
> then one additional page of content.
>
> Should any (or all) of these records be merged? Apparently the Blue Sky
> editions are hardcover, but Blue Sky is an imprint of Scholastic. Could the
> Scholastic and Blue Sky records be merged as well so long as we included
> both ISBNs in 020s and listed both Scholastic and Blue Sky in the 260 field?
>
> Follow up question: If the records should not be merged, would it be
> better to use a record from a library in my county, or would any Spark
> record work?
>
> And finally: If I see that a record has a mistake, should I fix that
> mistake? If yes, should I seek permission first? For example, today we
> found a record where the 250 field had 'Frist Edition'. Can we go ahead and
> fix that? Or if a record has a 440 field instead of 490, can we update that
> or would that be an issue?
>
> Sorry for the barrage!
> Thank you for any and all guidance!
>
> Michelle Echols
> Eastern Monroe Public Library
>
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