[Heb-NACO] Erroneous date of publication

[Kuperman, Aaron]

Is this wrong?   Publishers frequently get a book finished behind or ahead of schedule, and always have.  If the printer gets done with the book a few months early, no publisher will "wait" until the year change, and similarly, if the printer takes too long, no publisher will send the book back to the printer and tell them to break up the books in order to print a corrected title page and rebind the books.

Obviously if there is information in the book that contradicts the imprint date (e.g. a copyright date other than the imprint date), that is important and there is a field for that.  If it is an obvious typo (e.g. "published in 2119") there's a rule for that.   Remember that any user looking for the book will end up looking for the date on the title page and really doesn't care when your copy arrived in your library.  If the difference is important and can't be addressed in one of the various 264 fields, I suggest a note explaining what you believe to be the imprint date and why.

Aaron Kuperman, LC Law Cataloging Section.
This is not an official communication from my employer


From: Heb-naco <heb-naco-bounces+akup=loc.gov at lists.osu.edu> On Behalf Of Rachel Simon
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2018 9:06 AM
To: Hebrew Name Authority Funnel <heb-naco at lists.osu.edu>
Subject: [Heb-NACO] Erroneous date of publication

How should we deal with items with wrong date of publication?

We received a book (NOT in Hebrew) with a 2019  publication date; some libraries got it even earlier in 2018. Should we just transcribe the information the way it is and add a note? Add the correct date in square brackets?

Thanks,

Rachel
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