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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Some more thoughts about this, perhaps not too consoling.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Wasn’t the whole point of web catalogs that people from all over the world could access everyone’s catalog? I have to admit that I never understood the IR system
very well and have frequently used this website to access other librarys’ catalogs:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.lib-web.org/">http://www.lib-web.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">It’s not perfect (e.g., occasionally the web hosting for it has changed) but it helps.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I would think the ILL system can’t be expected to find all the detail scholars want. One of the major aims of scholarship is to know where in the world the
detailed information is. For example, my library has several print catalogs of our special collections, which I have seen in other libraries. It is not really the job of librarians, I think, to give too much scholarly detail. That is the job of the students’
graduate advisors, who presumably know where some of the best collections on their subject area are.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">This development reminds me of the writings of Thomas Mann, who tried hard to push for a rigorous standard of cataloging though he was an LC reference librarian.
When online catalogs first appeared in the 80’s, he thought they were a great development. They increased various kinds of accessibility and consistency. But around 1990 an article called “Cataloging Must Change!” appeared which argued for spending less money
on cataloging since computers are so magical. From that time on Mann fought that idea. But maybe the lesson is that we really must recognize the limits of what computerized catalogs can do. I personally think it was always a mistake for libraries with large
special collections to consider World Cat Local. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Once something is automated, administrators want to reduce the price as much as possible.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Just some thoughts,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Ted Gemberling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">UAB Lister Hill Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Noble, Richard<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 25, 2015 9:52 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] Discontinuation of OCLC's institutional records program<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">One gathers that IRs--which were pretty much a concession to RLIN emigrants--were never of much interest to OCLC, which was, after all, a purveyor of master records, succeeding the LC card program,
not a research database. IRs never fit that model, and were and are presumably of little interest to the vast majority of libraries that never catalog at anything like our level of detail--that is, at our level of analysis of the identity and distinction of
manifestations--in "general" information. It simply doesn't fit the OCLC business model as it developed in the 70s and 80s, to which RLIN was the economically non-viable alternative.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">I feel safe in saying that he LBD option is about as far as OCLC is willing to go, beyond mere maintenance of IRs, and it conforms to the limits of model of WorldCat Local as marketed to libraries
with special collections concerns--"We know you have all sorts of special local information, and as long as it you tag it that way, it will actually appear in your own WorldCat Local displays." From their point of view I'm sure that this is sufficient.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">IRs are a distraction as OCLC moves into position as an ILS vendor, in the evolution from WorldCat Local, a catalog resource, to WorldCat Discovery Services, an integrated search resource, with
limited local customization of records for one's own materials to replace the institutional opac.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Of course, for us the loss involves the always basic difference between "regular" and "rare book" cataloging: the one looks for similarities, the other for differences. OCLC is willing to accommodate
item-level differences, but still has an overwhelming bias in favor of minimizing differences at the manifestation level, even to the point of indifference regarding manifestation so long as the right expression is presented. (It can be hard to persuade an
ILL staffer that one wants a particular <i>edition</i>, let alone copy of a work--and ILL was, after all, what the Ohio College Library Consortium was all about.)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">I don't think the IR stakeholders have a lot of weight here, which is why it could be presented as a
<i>fait accompli</i>. If you listen very closely you might hear a squeak or two in the underbrush (Hello!)--and that can include a library's internal underbrush. Administrators like to hear such things as</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">"</span>WorldCat Local is a webscale discovery solution that delivers single-search-box access to more than 1.8 billion items from your library and the world's library collections."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">All that, and a huge reduction in maintenance costs, at the local level. It's a Cloud service, and given the size of the thing they want to keep it as simple as it can be and still be represented
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Our one backstop is the fencing off, so far, of DCRM(X) records from the dreaded 019. For the last several years I've been enhancing records to that level, knowing that it was a last--and perhaps
ultimately futile--effort to preserve the kind of work I've been doing for the last 32 years. I think of Harvard's remarkable wealth of scholarly cataloging that was lost to the world in the recon for Hollis, which simply accepted OCLC records as they stood,
essentially erasing decades of skilled work. (I don't actually know whether their "Bridge Catalog"--the deep freeze for the card catalog--is still extant. It was
<i>that</i>, by the way, that Nicholson Baker was deploring in his 1991 article, beyond any sentimentality about the card sensorium.)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">This may be unduly pessimistic (there are those who would read it otherwise). It ought not to be beyond the ability of a brilliant IT company to accommodate a wide range of customers, but the
choice between LBD and outright deletion of IRs is not encouraging.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">BROWN UNIVERSITY :: PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912 :: 401-863-1187</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><</span><a href="mailto:RICHARD_NOBLE@BROWN.EDU" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Richard_Noble@Br</span></a><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><a href="http://own.edu" target="_blank">own.edu</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Allison Rich <<a href="mailto:allison_rich@brown.edu" target="_blank">allison_rich@brown.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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This is not welcome news for us either.<br>
We have been using IRs from the very beginning after RLIN died.<br>
I always saw IR's as a concession to RLIN libraries and the "cluster system".<br>
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I printed out the LBD information to look at later when I, like Robert, can read it more carefully.<br>
If there is a group letter or form of protest going around to OCLC, then the JCB would very much like to be part of that.<br>
People who use special collections are very interested in seeing other data from local collections at other institutions.<br>
This strikes me as very short sighted and a load of other words I really should not add here.<br>
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I would also like to know when and how this was decided without getting input from institutions which use the IRs.<br>
It seems like this was a backroom decision.<br>
Not good at all.<br>
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~Allison<br>
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<pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>"Outside of a dog, <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>a book is probably man's best friend,<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>and inside of a dog, <o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>- Groucho Marx"<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>Allison Rich<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Rare Materials Cataloguer<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>ESTC and NACO Coordinator<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>John Carter Brown Library<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Providence, Rhode Island<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><a href="mailto:Allison_Rich@brown.edu" target="_blank">Allison_Rich@brown.edu</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We would be very badly affected by this apparently unilateral action. All of our holdings are on
IRs. I haven’t read the explanation about “local bibliographic data” carefully yet, but one thing that strikes me right off the bat is the statement “Using local bibliographic data (LBD), you can add local information to a bibliographic record that is specific
to your institution’s title; however, <b>other institutions will not be able to see that information</b> in the WorldCat master record and your users will only see your institution’s LBD.” This strikes me as very bad, especially for special collections. As
we all know, users of special collections depend on the ability to see other institutions’ local information for their research—e.g., to find out who has books signed by Abraham Lincoln, or whose copy has a particular woodcut that only some copies have.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I am also surprised, if this was discussed at Big Heads, that not a peep about this has surfaced
until now. At least I certainly hadn’t heard anything about it before reading the message you forwarded, Oksana. Maybe I haven’t been paying attention.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Bob</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Robert L. Maxwell<br>
Ancient Languages and Special Collections Cataloger<br>
6728 Harold B. Lee Library<br>
Brigham Young University<br>
Provo, UT 84602<br>
<a href="tel:%28801%29422-5568" target="_blank">(801)422-5568</a> <br>
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"We should set an example for all the world, rather than confine ourselves to the course which has been heretofore pursued"--Eliza R. Snow, 1842.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a> [<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Oksana Linda<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 23, 2015 2:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Revision Group List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] Discontinuation of OCLC's institutional records program</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">I was very disappointed to learn about the discontinuation of OCLC's institutional records program. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I would like to ask: h<span style="font-size:9.5pt">ow other rare material libraries </span>maintain and preserve local data?<o:p></o:p></p>
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Oksana K. Linda<br>
William L. Clements Library<br>
University of Michigan<br>
909 South University<br>
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Whitehair,David [mailto:<a href="mailto:whitehad@oclc.org" target="_blank">whitehad@oclc.org</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 16, 2015 5:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Marill, Jennifer (NIH/NLM) [E]<br>
<b>Subject:</b> OCLC Institution Records update for Big Heads</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Hi Jennifer,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Could you please distribute this information to the Big Heads group? I wanted to share an update to our discussion in Chicago.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">OCLC will begin the announcements about Institution Records this week. There has been one change from what we discussed at ALA. We will now change to a two phased approach. Batchloading
new IRs will be discontinued in December 2015, and creation/display of IRs in Connexion will be discontinued in June 2016.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">We will take a mixed approach of calling some libraries and emailing some.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Announcements will include the following information:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The alternative to IRs is
<a href="http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/support/documentation/cataloging/Working_with_LBDs.pdf" target="_blank">
Local Bibliographic Data</a> (LBD), which enables master record data to be cooperatively managed by thousands of experts and OCLC staff while providing library-specific information for discovery applications. Also, LBDs support future linked data initiatives
and entities-based cataloging workflows. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The ability to create IRs via batchload will conclude in December 2015. Connexion will support creation of IRs until June 2016, when support for IRs will end. We will offer institutions two options:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">1.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Delete existing IRs</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">2.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Create LBDs from existing IRs or from local system records</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">An FAQ is available on the OCLC web site and will be shared with libraries:
</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.oclc.org/connexion/resources.en.html#questions" target="_blank">http://www.oclc.org/connexion/resources.en.html#questions</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I will be presenting at the upcoming OCLC CJK Users Group meeting in Chicago next week on March 24, and I will include
information about this in my presentation.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">If anyone from the Big Heads group have any questions, feel free to contact Sandi Jones
<span style="color:#1F497D">(<a href="mailto:joness@oclc.org" target="_blank">joness@oclc.org</a>)
</span>who is overseeing this effort, or me.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thanks much,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">David<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">David Whitehair</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Director, Metadata Management</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">6565 Kilgour Place</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dublin, OH 43017-3395 USA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Voice --
<a href="tel:%2B1-614-764-6483" target="_blank">+1-614-764-6483</a> or <a href="tel:1-800-848-5878" target="_blank">
1-800-848-5878</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Email --
<a href="mailto:whitehad@oclc.org" target="_blank">whitehad@oclc.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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