[Evergreen-catalogers] Vox books and Wonderbooks

Tue Aug 13 10:44:57 EDT 2019

Hi Janet and anyone else who might be interested,

Attached are icons I created for Vox Books, Playaways, Playaway View,
Playaway LaunchPad and MP3 CD. Hope these are useful.

Christine

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 3:45 PM Janet Schrader <jschrader at cwmars.org> wrote:

> Hi Beth,
>
> I think we may go with spoken recording. I prefer the physical description
> to be "audio enabled book" rather than "+ audio narration" or something
> like that, that I've seen in some records. I'm hoping Jason can create a
> format filter for MP3 CD Audiobook using the 347 field. If that's
> successful then I'd do the same for "Audio Enabled Book", although that's
> probably not an 'authorized' term. I don't have a list of the RDA terms
> used in the 344 and 347 fields. Is one available somewhere other than the
> toolkit? Ideally the Vox and Wonderbooks could be searched using the "all
> books" limiter and the "audio enabled book" limiter.
>
> If Christine can share the icons with me, that would be great.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Janet
>
>
> Janet Schrader
>
> Bibliographic Services Supervisor | CW MARS
>
> 67 Millbrook Street, Suite 201, Worcester, MA 01606
>
> P: 508-755-3323 x 325 | F: 508-757-7801
>
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>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 9:10 AM Willis, Beth <willis at noblenet.org> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>> Bibliographic Services Supervisor | CW MARS
>>>
>>> 67 Millbrook Street, Suite 201, Worcester, MA 01606
>>>
>>> P: 508-755-3323 x 325 | F: 508-757-7801
>>>
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>>
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>> NOBLE, Inc.
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Christine Morgan
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North of Boston Library Exchange, Inc.
Danvers, Massachusetts
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