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Claire, Most of the e-books we bought so far are from netLibrary for which we receive OCLC records. Printed and electronic versions are treated as separate records by OCLC and in our catalogue. We don't try to merge records when we have any book in print and as an e-book, but have added "cross references" to direct users from print to electronic, as well as from earlier editions of the same work. See http://library.bangor.ac.uk/search/t?SEARCH=basic+groupwork&searchscope=5 We identify possible duplicates and earlier editions using the duplicate (Title Key) report when loading bib records for e-books. Mieko On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Claire Norton wrote: > Dear All, > > This question is for anyone out there who has bought e books : > > I am trying to find out if you did how you dealt with titles where you already > had the printed copy in stock. Did you merge records, if yes how did you > do it ? Was it done manually or can the system do it automatically ? If it > was done automatically can you let me know how as we have not found > a way around this problem, and in an ideal world we would prefer to have > print and e copies accessed from 1 record rather than deal with them > seperately. > > Please reply direct to me. ----- Mieko Yamaguchi [log in to unmask] Technical Services Manager/System Coordinator +44 (0)1248 382970 Main Library, University of Wales Bangor, UK +44 (0)1248 382979 (Fax)