<div>Hi Robin,</div>
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<div>There's no need to apologize for asking questions! You bring up some valid concerns in this email, and I'll try to answer them for you.</div>
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<div>First, in reference to Minerva cataloging standards, it's true that there is not a publication that has collected them all together in one printed volume. However, the standards are available on the blog (<a href="http://minervacats.blogspot.com/">http://minervacats.blogspot.com/</a>), but I had not labeled them sufficiently. I've fixed that now, and you should be able to go to the blog, search on "standards", and find all of them. I think it would be very helpful for a printed publication to be made available for catalogers, and I'll start working on a project that addresses this.</div>
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<div>As for the DVDs, I had not looked at the Avatar records before. There is a standard for cataloging multipart DVD series. Avatar: the last airbender looks like a DVD series that is labeled like a graphic novel series, which just adds another degree of difficulty to the cataloging. I checked on Amazon and it appears that these discs can be purchased both individually and collectively.</div>
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<div>The separate "books", Water, Earth, and Fire, should be treated like "seasons" of a TV series. The record for Book 1 Water is correct, as is the record for True Blood. Book 2 and Book 3 should each have a single bib record, with multiple 020 fields for the ISBNs, and the individual item records should have volume notes that describe which discs, or "volumes", are included in the item.</div>
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<div>You can go ahead and import or create a new bib record for the entire Book 3, and attach your items to it. If you let me know when that's done, I will take care of merging the other records. I'll do the same with the Book 2 records.</div>
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<div>Please contact me if you have any other questions about this.</div>
<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Ellen<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Robin Sanford <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robins@lithgow.lib.me.us">robins@lithgow.lib.me.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hello everyone,<br><br>I realize I've had a number of questions lately. Sorry about that.<br><br>I was never given a copy of, or a link to, any Minerva cataloging<br>
standards documents (and I have checked the blog for such links).<br>Perhaps this question is addressed in them.<br><br>I am trying to add Avatar: The Last Airbender Book 3 Fire. The ISBN<br>on the outside of the container brings up no hits. Searching by title<br>
brings up the collection... with each volume cataloged separately.<br><br>Looking at Avatar : The Last Airbender Book 2 Water brings up a<br>record where the entire collection of DVD's is cataloged as one item,<br>with each library adding volume information in the item records.<br>
<br>Which way do we catalog these items? I've just added True Blood (the<br>television series) and it too had one record for the collection with<br>volume information in the item records.<br><br>I am not going to add these DVDs as individual items - we will put<br>
two disks in one container so as to make the most of our very limited<br>shelf space. I cannot add on to the existing Book 3 Fire records.<br><br>Should I bring in a new record? I am hesitant to do so unless all the<br>Book 3 fire records get merged, as it is going to be very confusing<br>
for patrons and staff members alike.<br><br>Robin Sanford<br><br>Robin Sanford<br>Systems and Technical Services Librarian<br>Lithgow Public Library<br><a href="http://www.lithgow.lib.me.us/" target="_blank">http://www.lithgow.lib.me.us</a><br>
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