<div dir="ltr">As both a rare-book cataloguer and an independent scholar who leans heavily on copy-specific notes about provenance, I never look for copy-specific notes--however important--in OCLC. I go to local OPACS for that. <br><br>My tendency is to delete copy-specific notes when I see them in master records. I assume that whatever institution recorded them has duplicated those notes in their own OPAC.<br><br>Sarah Lindenbaum<br>Cataloguer<br>Rare Book & Manuscript Library<br>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<div><a href="mailto:lindenb2@illinois.edu">lindenb2@illinois.edu</a> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Noble, Richard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard_noble@brown.edu" target="_blank">richard_noble@brown.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif">Ah. Well found, that passage, though this is a case where permissiveness really needs to be tempered by the included cautionary note: "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px">Consider the usefulness of the information in accessing and identifying the item versus the likelihood that the record will be used in copy-cataloging or found by others who will </span><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0)">not</strong><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px"> need your copy- or institution-specific notes and added entries."</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px">One mental test might be, "Would it be worth separately cataloging those annotations as a manuscript?" Just as one might do with, say, a copy of a Robert Frost edition with an author inscription including the whole text of a poem (something he did a lot). If the answer is yes, do that; if not, depend on the local record alone as the means of access.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px">All the more reason to mourn the demise of IRs, by which such potentially useful information could be found in a single search.</span></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_6825874270467387080gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><font face="'courier new', monospace">RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY</font><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">BROWN UNIVERSITY :: PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912 :: <a href="tel:401-863-1187" value="+14018631187" target="_blank">401-863-1187</a></font></div><div><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><</span><a href="mailto:RICHARD_NOBLE@BROWN.EDU" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace" target="_blank">Richard_Noble@Br</a><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><a href="http://own.edu" target="_blank">own.edu</a></span><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">></span></div></div></div><div><div class="h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Elaine Hooker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elaine.hooker@wheaton.edu" target="_blank">elaine.hooker@wheaton.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I tend to add such information to OCLC using a subfield 5 only when the information is of broad research value rather than local interest only. For example, a book that we own with annotations by a former owner that researchers would want
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<p class="MsoNormal">Elai<span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"">ne Powell Hooker<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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