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List here, using comments, any categories of cataloging errors that need to be cleaned up.

Please add comments to this post to list potential voyager issues to be included in a review. If you have comments on items others have listed, make those as comments on their comment list, rather than comments at this level. I will put “Cataloging error cleanup” as one item meant to include all the various cataloging errors - then we’ll have a separate blog entry to list those individually.

I found out from CARLI how to correct the problem of having the wrong cover image from Syndetics associated with record in Voyager:

For the cover art images and other info supplied by Syndetics Solutions, what happens is that WebVoyage sends the first ISBN (020 $a) found in the bib off to the Syndetics database for matching. If they have the ISBN in their file, the cover image is shipped back to WebVoyage for display along with the bib data. Sometimes, the ISBNs in the bibs don’t match up with ISBN for the same title in the Syndetics database. The ‘wrong’ data can be either in the bib or in the remote database (which we have no direct control over).

If there is only one ISBN in the bib and its cover art doesn’t match the title, then the first thing to do is check OCLC or other sources to verify that the ISBN in the bib is current/accurate. If the bib’s single ISBN matches what is on OCLC, then pretty much all we can do is report this to Syndetics. Libraries can send this info to us via the support@carli.illinois.edu adddress.

For many bibs, however, there are multiple ISBNs, but it is only the first 020 $a that is used for this matching. We have found that in many cases, if you re-arrange the order of the existing ISBNs in the bib record, save the bib and then re-search in WebVoyage, this will correct the cover image problem. Of course, this assumes that at least one of the multiple ISBNs in the bib matches the same title/ISBN in the Syndetics database. If none of them match what is in the Syndetics db and you have verified on OCLC that the bib’s ISBNs are accurate, then we’d need to report this to Syndetics.