Great-grandmother

• =prababička, prababka
• Refers to a specific piece of work in all its language versions (mothers)
• It carries information about:
  • Tags (e.g. “Thriller”, “Fiction”)
  • Series (e.g. “Lord of the Rings”
  • Original title
  • Year of first release
• To look up a great-grandmother, one can use the “Find great-grandmother” module in Manny.
• Every day, great-grandmothers are being merged together.

Grandmother

• =babička, babka
• knihobot.cz/g/xxxxxx
• A grandmother groups all editions of a specific work in a specific language
  • E.g. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown and all of its many English editions
  • Ztracený symbol by Dan Brown and all its Czech editions
  • Stratený symbol by Dan Brown and all its Slovakian editions
• The product page that a customer sees is a grandmother in a specific language
  • E.g. a Czech customer, after clicking on a book in our catalogue, is by default redirected to the Czech grandmother of that book, if we have one.
• A grandmother doesn’t carry much information apart from the mothers ****that belong to that grandmother.
  • Not even the title - the same piece of work often has different titles depending on the edition.
• To look up a grandmother, one can use the “Find great-grandmother” module in Manny.

Mother

• =matka
• Refers to a specific edition of a book with a unique ISBN
  • E.g. the English edition of The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown published in 2009 by Bantam Books, in hardcover, with ISBN 9780593054277.
• A mother carries the most information about the book.
  • Title
  • Author
  • Subtitle
  • ISBN
  • Language
  • Publisher
  • Year of publication
  • Binding
  • Series
  • Collection
  • Annotation
  • Number of pages
  • Number of volumes
  • Internal note
• Each book received has to be “mothered” = paired to a mother. Some are paired automatically (via ISBN or AI), some manually (app in Manny).
• To look up a mother, you can use the “Find mother" module or “Mothering console” in Manny