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Policies & Practices > How to mark a book "NOT A BOOK"

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message 1: by Lenore (new)

Lenore Kosinski (lenoreo) | 1 comments I sincerely tried to search through the discussion topics first, but I could not find an answer, so I hope this is not repetitive.

I noticed a book marked NOT A BOOK, and so I went to the manual to read about it. The book I noticed had the title *and* the author marked NOT A BOOK, but I notice other books only have the author marked as NOT A BOOK. Could you maybe clarify in the manual *what* exactly is supposed to be marked as NOT A BOOK so there is consistency and librarians aren't doing different things? My interpretation is that only the author should be changed, linked to the NOT A BOOK author profile, but that everything else should be left the same. Is this correct?

Thank you!


message 2: by Renske (new)

Renske | 12220 comments Changing the author is needed for NAB. The title is no required for the technical side, although I think it was in the past more often the practice to do so.

I hardly ever change the title any more, mainly because most of my recent NABs are merging profiles with only notebooks and such into the Not A Book profile and editing all those titles would quite increase the amount of work.


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