[MinervaCats] high school musical 3 dvd--OTP, CAM

[Ellen Conway]

Hi Nelson and other minervacats,

The bib record b26807932 was created on 1/30/09 by cam.  This is an
excellent record lacking only an ISBN.  The other bib, b26826343, was
created on 2/12/09 by otp and it is a duplicate of the older record, the
only major difference being that it includes the ISBN.

I don't know how this duplication occurred but it happens too often.  My
guess is that this is the result of searching for a record using the ISBN.
Please, catalogers, ALWAYS search by title first.  If that has no result,
then your next search should be by author (if there is one, of course).
Only then should you search on the ISBN.

In general when looking for good bibs to attach to, if you find one that
seems to be a match in ever other way, but info such as the ISBN is missing,
please use the record and add the missing field.

There doesn't seem to be any way to prevent duplications like this other
than by careful searching.  If you find such a duplication and are not able
to eliminate it please advise me.

I will go ahead and merge these records.  You should attach to the cam bib,
b26807932.

Thanks,
Ellen
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Nelson Eubanks <neubanks at lithgow.lib.me.us
> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I am attaching this DVD and am seeking differences of the two existing
> records/physical DVDs.
> thanks
>
> --
> Nelson Eubanks
> Systems Librarian
> Lithgow Library, Augusta ME
> www.lithgow.lib.me.us
>
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Ellen M. Conway
Maine InfoNet Cataloging Consultant
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