[Evergreen-catalogers] Vox books and Wonderbooks

[Willis, Beth]

Hi,

NOBLE is cataloging Vox Books.  We have found it difficult to use MARC
codes to clearly distinguish among some formats including the Vox books and
playaways,  as well as some other. Additionally, as you pointed out, the
records are not coded consistently.  So we have decided to use a local
field to code the search format and the OPAC icon for these formats.  This
method has worked well for us so far.  It helps that Christine Morgan has
also created a nice format icon for the Vox books, among others.  She would
be happy to share the icons if others are interested.


Beth

On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 12:40 PM 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
>
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Beth Willis
Digital & Catalog Librarian
NOBLE, Inc.
42 Cherry Hill Drive
Danvers, MA 01923
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