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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>Here’s the official word from Jay Weitz. The exception for maps (no de-duping for pre-1900) stands. -Jackie<BR>
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<B>From: </B>"Weitz,Jay" <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="weitzj@oclc.org">weitzj@oclc.org</a></U></FONT>><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Wed, 3 Nov 2010 09:58:09 -0400<BR>
<B>To: </B>OCLC Dooley <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="dooleyj@oclc.org">dooleyj@oclc.org</a></U></FONT>><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>RE: DDR cutoff dates for rare materials<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#1E487C"><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Dear Jackie,<BR>
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Thanks for the kind words about the Webinar. If I said that the pre-1800 (actually pre-1801) cutoff was limited to Books records, then I misspoke. We don’t intentionally merge any records with publication dates 1800 or earlier, regardless of bibliographic format. That would include graphic materials. If the materials are identified as reproductions (microform, electronic, etc.) rather than the original pre-1801 resource, however, they may be candidates for merging.<BR>
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Jay<BR>
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Jackie Dooley<BR>
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OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership<BR>
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