<div dir="ltr">The label "Dummy" follows immediately after the 500$a in many older ESTC records (including a bunch of legacy records in our OPAC, imported from RLIN in the olden days), and the next word always begins with a capital letter, so it's evidently a label of some sort.<div><br></div><div>Does anyone know why "Dummy" was used this way? </div><div><br></div><div>If you do a Google search on the phrase "Dummy reproduction of the original in" you can find a slew of them (including in EEBO-TCP bibliographic descriptions, but not EEBO, so the records have been cleaned up).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Background: a researcher asked what "Dummy" means in a library context, and I was about to explain shelf dummies (place-holders on the shelf for a book semi-permanently shelved somewhere else) and dummies in the sense of model books (salesmen's dummies, publisher's dummies, etc.). Then I looked at the context, and that's clearly not what's going on here.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Erin.</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
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