Cover changed instead of alternate edition: What to do?

[Ellie]

While browsing through my shelves, I realised that someone has changed some of the covers of the The History of Middle-earth series (Btw, should it be Middle-Earth or Middle-earth? Tolkien used the latter one but I don't know the capitalization rules for hyphenated words in English).

The change logs indicate that the changes took place last Saturday so they are pretty new.

I know that it is wrong to replace covers, however, in defense of the librarian who did it (and I think that I once started a topic asking about this issue but I can't find it anymore and I think I never got an answer): The newly uploaded covers are the ones for the older editions that were actually printed in 1994. The ones that got deleted were the newer ones of the reprints that are from around 2002 or something. So theoretically, the entries were corrected.

So now I'm totally at a loss. Can someone please tell me what to do in this case? Should the changes be reverted (is that even possible with covers), the date set to the newer date and an alternate edition be created for the older cover edition? Or should an alternate edition be created for the covers that got deleted and leave the changed entries be? (Anyways, it's really time to either allow multiple covers per ISBN to choose from or allow multiple editions to have the same ISBN. All this cover chaos is a nuisance.)

Here are the links to the books that were on my shelves and got changed:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Ellie wrote: "Should the changes be reverted (is that even possible with covers), the date set to the newer date and an alternate edition be created for the older cover edition?"

Yes, and yes it is.

[Ellie]

Thanks, I'll do that tomorrow (it's almost midnight here).

And I guess that I should message the other librarian and tell her about the cover/alternate edition policy?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Yes, please. :)

[Ellie]

All done. Thanks for your advice, rivka!

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Thanks for taking care of the issue!

[Robert]

Hi, Debbie (librarian) said that I can request to "swap" the old book cover with the new one. So, I'm requesting that someone to swap "This High School Has Closets (ISBN 9781927124048) with the alternative cover listed because that is the cover that is really being used. Thanks.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Robert: http://www.goodreads.com/help/show/31...