Background
NCSU libraries purchase ebook frontlist packages every year. There is often a delay in marc records delivery due to the holdup in the data pipeline from publisher to knowledgebase provider and to our discovery system. The delay can happen from several months to over a year. Due to the delay, these new ebook titles will not appear in the discovery layer until we have the marc records. C&RS and A&D often rely on our catalog to check the availability of an ebook title to make a purchase decision. Without the availability of the marc records in our catalog, duplicated purchase could be made for the same titles. Therefore, it’s important to provide discovery records for the frontlist ebooks that we have purchased but no marc records yet to avoid potential duplicated purchase. We recommend creating brief bib records for these frontlist titles when C&RS send the requests to A&D.
Brief Bibliographic Records
Date cataloged = NEVER
Record format = MARC
Bib level = m
Encoding level = 2
2 - Less-than-full level, material not examined
Date 1 = [publication year]
All other fixed fields are unedited
245 $a
Title of the book
If no accessible link available, append [Forthcoming [year]] after the title.
Example: Ferrets, Rabbits, and Rodents [Forthcoming 2020]
If an accessible link is available, DON’T append [Forthcoming [year]] to the title.
020
Available ISBN
260 $c
Publication year
590
If no accessible link available, add note “New ebook ordered, access coming soon.”
DON’T add if an accessible link is available.
773
Package name that the title is part of.
856
If url available, add 856. Otherwise, don’t.
Proxy prefix: https://proxying.lib.ncsu.edu/index.php?url=
$y: |yView resource online (NCSU only)
$z: the provider
Example:
|yView resource online (NCSU only)|uhttps://proxying.lib.ncsu.edu/index.php?url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119460381|zWiley
Call Number/Item
Call library: ONLINE
Class scheme: AUTO
Item ID: AUTO
Type: EBOOK
Home location: NET
Item cat3: LEASED if EBA package title; leave it blank for others
All other fields are unedited
Maintenance
Record the added brief records in the google spreadsheet, and remove them when SerSol records become available.