[Evergreen-catalogers] Vox books and Wonderbooks

[Kate Coleman]

We recently got our first order of Wonderbooks and went through this ordeal
as well. Since Evergreen is somewhat limited on the icons to display, we
decided these were more like "easy readalongs" than anything else (book/CD
combo), so that's what we cataloged them as. They have the CD audiobook
icon (not ideal, I know), and all the fixed fields to go along with that.
For anyone that might actually read it we have a 500 that states "Issued as
a Wonderbook, a pre-loaded audiobook player permanently attached to a
hardcover book."


Kate Coleman
Jefferson County Library - Central Services
Technical Services Specialist
5678 State Rd. PP
High Ridge, MO 63049
636-677-8689
Fax: 636--677-1769
kcoleman at jeffcolib.org




On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 11:40 AM Janet Schrader <jschrader at cwmars.org> wrote:

> Hi Catalogers,
>
> Always nice to get a puzzle on a Friday afternoon.
>
> I have a question about cataloging Vox books and Wonderbooks. These are
> books with built in audiobook player attached to a hardcover book. Because
> we download records from OCLC we are getting various formats. Some show as
> CD audiobook, some as an e-book, and some are cataloged like Playaways
> which have the format 'digital media player' in our ILS.
>
> At the request of one library in our network I've been changing the format
> to 'digital media player' for ones they own, Vox books or Wonder books
> that other libraries own have a variety of formats. I've looked at call
> numbers and shelving locations and these vary from Multi-media to Picture
> Book.
>
> Now to the question. How should these be cataloged in MARC. What goes into
> the 006, 007, and 008 fields?  I am trying to avoid e-book as these are not
> online resources bu Evergreen seems to pick up the code for electronic
> resource in the 006 field and combine it with record type for print.
>
> Do any in this group catalog these?  I would like some consistency (I
> know, hobgoblins at all that) and right now it's pointing to audio even
> though the book appears to be the primary format. The 300 field also
> varies. The Vox books say 'audio enabled book' or describe the book +
> 'audio enabled narration' The Wonderbooks actually have '1 Wonderbook' as
> we now can use a common term for the description.
>
> Is there a way in Evergreen for both 'Book' and 'Digital media player" to
> display in the OPAC as formats?
>
>
>
> Thoughts anyone?
>
>
> Janet
>
>
> Janet Schrader
>
> Bibliographic Services Supervisor | CW MARS
>
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