We also combine different editions and formats like paperback and hardcover on bib records, to reduce "duplicate" records and to make title holds simpler, and also get regular requests to separate paperbacks.
However, we are also now using Aspen discovery which groups formats by default, and the different formats/editions are much easier to differentiate than in other public catalogs. I'm beginning to wonder if separating formats/editions is a better approach now that we have better tools for display. Lindsay *Lindsay Stratton* *Systems Librarian* Westchester Library System 570 Taxter Rd., 4th Floor Elmsford, NY 10523 lstrat...@wlsmail.org On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 12:43 PM Joan Kranich via Evergreen-general < evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote: > Hi, > > In C/W MARS a bibliographic record may contain items for paperback and for > hardcover. We have had some recommendations to separate paperback items > from hardcover items. > > This is a change on the cataloging side but also with how holds would be > filled. > > Do any of you use separate bibliographic records for paperback vs. > hardcover or do you have another workflow to make it easy for staff and > patrons to place holds to be filled by one format vs. the other? > > Thank you. > > Joan > > -- > > Joan Kranich (she/her/hers) > Library Applications Manager, C/W MARS, Inc. > > ------------------------------ > > [image: icon] jkran...@cwmars.org | [image: icon]www.cwmars.org > > [image: icon] 508-755-3323 x 1 > _______________________________________________ > Evergreen-general mailing list > Evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org > http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-general >
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