The Great Courses

The rules on this page have been approved in concept by the SCRAP committee, but the exact wording is still being adjusted. Please use these rules. Please send any feedback to SCRAP.

The Great Course educational sets are audio and video recordings of college lectures, and should be cataloged according to the specific format, with the following considerations.

Search for your set by more than the ISBN, as the publisher sometimes reuses the ISBN for the same title in a different format, and rarely, for a different title.

Please use the record for the entire set instead of the individual parts of the set records.

The sets have been issued with individual course guidebooks for each part in the set, with one course guidebook for the entire set, and with the course guidebook(s) and a course transcript. For our purposes, the accompanying material is not sufficient reason to create or import a new record. Also, the OCLC master record for one variation of accompanying material is often changed and/or merged with another variation in OCLC. Add a 500 note for your particular variation to the record in the CCS database. (sample record - ocn368249376)

Don't forget to add the appropriate series tracings. Search the local and national authority files with "great courses" to see the authorized forms.