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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I report duplicates through the OCLC merge record form if it is a straight forward and obvious duplicate. If it something that needs a bit of explanation, then I use the report errors function under Action.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">As a side note: lately, within 24 hours of reporting an error to OCLC, I have been getting a confirmation email that it has been fixed. They have greatly improved their response time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Stewart, Duncan R<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 27, 2016 10:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group <dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] Reporting duplicates<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I report them through the OCLC merge records form under Help in menu bar. Though most of the things I report are not rare materials, just modern stuff that has been cataloged twice or thrice, often with a vendor
record or a cip record, and lots of encoding level M records.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="color:#1F497D">Duncan Stewart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN" style="color:#1F497D">To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof</span></i><span lang="EN" style="color:#1F497D">—Clause IV, Labour Party
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a> [<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu">mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Deborah J. Leslie<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 27, 2016 11:18 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group <<a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] Reporting duplicates<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Speaking of doing the catalog a service, who among us routinely reports duplicate master records? What procedure do you use? How onerous (or easy) is it?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#31849B">Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. | Senior Cataloger, Folger Shakespeare Library |
<a href="mailto:djleslie@folger.edu">djleslie@folger.edu</a> | 202.675-0369 | 201 East Capitol St., SE, Washington, DC 20003 | www. folger.edu | orcid.org/0000-0001-5848-5467
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