Great example, Alison. The solutions aren't acceptable. We can't change international cataloging standards to make our data fit into "the OPAC of the hour."

This just came up again. We have two books with the title "France" and no author. A 2024 Lonely Planet France guidebook and the 2023 DK guidebook are included in the same Vega record. The books have separate bibs with unique ISBNs. The explanation is that these bibs are rolling up together because they have the same title (245 $abnp) and no author field to differentiate them either. It's frustrating that Vega won’t let versions of the same title roll up if there is an errant comma in an author field, but two books called “France” it determines are the same. Support directs us to this:

1. If the bib is for a single word or simple title that and has no author, consider adding distinguishing data to the title field to unroll it from the larger work. For Example: A travel guide about Thailand that is simply titled "Thailand" and has no author can be updated in the following way to differentiate the instance from other works with the same title and no author:
a. Include the Guide Series in the title: $a Thailand $b (Lonely Planet)
b. Include the publication year in the title: $a Thailand $b (Lonely Planet 2023)
c. Give the guide series an author designation:
1. Title: Thailand
2. 110 Author: Lonely Planet Travel Guides
d. Some libraries choose to have a single bib record for guides with yearly volumes for each reprint of the guide and use the item volume details to allow the patron to select a particular year's guide.

Adding a subtitle that is not actually part of the title to satisfy the software is a deviation from standard cataloging procedure.

As with Bill Taylor's comment below on uniform titles, the use of 240s in manga is causing us significant issues with multiple volumes being rolled up with another volume (ex. the record for vol.7 has volumes 1,3 and 4 rolled up under it). This makes Vega Discover almost unusable for finding graphic novels.
Overdrive records are also problematic, in not rolling up due to the poor cataloging of those records.

We experience the same issue with numerous graphic novels' bibliographic records. We would rather not have to touch these records and have them roll up properly and the authors display in Vega. Most of these records do not have 100 Author, only the 256 $c for a statement of responsibility.

See comment from PrarieCat 1/9/24 on Vega Listserv - https://listserv.iii.com/read/messages?id=507451.

We run into this issue, where a title like Bloom's Literary Places (Paris, London, etc.) were rolling up with travel guides with the same title (i.e., Paris), because in both cases the items in question had the same 245$a and neither had an author. I don't know if this would be remedied by being able to customize or not. Our catalogers would prefer to NOT change the 245 to something other than what's on the book in order to make Vega roll up correctly.

On behalf of PRCAT,

We have 9 records that are rolled up when searching for “The séance and other stories” when they shouldn’t. The author, language and 240 matches however the 245's are completely different.

https://prcat.na2.iiivega.com/search/card?id=b7b9575f-06c7-5e11-ba1e-5961463bed20&entityType=For…

All records have:
Author 100 1 Singer, Isaac Bashevis,|d1904-1991.
Alt Title 240 0 0 Short stories.|kSelections.|lEnglish or Alt Title 240 0 0 Short stories.|lEnglish

I agree, Bill. Two records with the same generic uniform title (such as "Short stories. Selections") might have completely different content.

This would be HUGELY helpful. In addition to the Overdrive example, in the original post, it would be great to be able to have Vega not look at uniform titles in determining rollups.