Hi Tricia
Thanks for responding. It was a mixture of Marc loading problems (one of the problems was that duplicate ISBNs were causing records to be rejected or inserted rather than overlaid), our Resource Discovery System not showing the correct format icon and the fact that RDA doesn't easily support merged records (I'm told they're not format for hybrid material types).
Erica
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From: An informal open list set up by UKSG - Connecting the Information Community [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rey Patricia
Sent: 21 July 2014 15:45
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Subject: Re: [lis-e-resources] separation of electronic and printed book Marc records
We have a single record for paper and e copies. What made you change? Was it importing MARC records that caused the problems in the first place?
Tricia Rey
Library Services Manager
Queen Victoria Hospital
Holtye Road
East Grinstead
West Sussex
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From: An informal open list set up by UKSG - Connecting the Information Community [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lee, Erica
Sent: 21 July 2014 15:38
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Subject: [lis-e-resources] separation of electronic and printed book Marc records
We've recently made the decision to separate out our e-book records and printed book records. They've been merged for the last few years because we thought it would be more user-friendly for students, but due to increasing technical problems with this arrangement we've started the process of separating them. We've decided to have one record for our printed books and one record for our e-books no matter how many providers we take the e-book from (so, if we take the e-book from both Elsevier and Ebrary, the links would both be on the same record). This latter decision, coupled with our ordering and receipting workflow means that we still need some overlaying processes in place whenever we load new e-book marcs into the catalogue.
However, since I've started the separation process, I've found that some e-books in any new e-book marc files that I load into out catalogue (Sierra) are overlaying the print record instead of the e record. This is because many e-book providers include the print ISBN in their e-book marc records. On further investigation, it looks like our system uses the first ISBN in the record to take as a match point which is sometimes the printed ISBN, and sometimes the eISBN. There doesn't seem to be any standard format for records to take and we buy e-books from many different providers who all do different things, so finding a different field to match on isn't really an option either.
I'd have thought that keeping e and print separate was the norm so there must be people who are managing this successfully. Can any of you make any suggestions or let me know how you get round this?
Many thanks
Erica
Erica Lee
Information Resources Specialist
Aston University
Library and Information Services.
Aston Triangle
Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK
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