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<p class=MsoNormal>Shared with Roger Lawson’s kind permission.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I’m particularly concerned with both the LDR’s
lack of visibility within the WorldCat environment and its lack of robustness
in terms of actually STORING important local data such as the 541, 561, 787 (we
use this to relate individually cataloged items to related collections) and the
|5 for locally added tracings (former owners, etc.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Many, many of our RECON records lack OCLC numbers –we are
about to do another reclamation project which will help with that, but our
Database manager is going to have to do some fancy MARC Edit footwork to get them
into our local records.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Sigh.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Dorothy Auyong<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Principal Rare Book Cataloger<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Henry E. Huntington Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>dauyong@huntington.org <o:p></o:p></p>
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