[DCRM-L] Question: Local notes in OCLC master records

[Auyong, Dorothy]

Whenever we create a Master Record/Institutional Record combination, I have instructed our catalogers to remove all local notes and tracings from the Master.

I seem to remember that 590 and 500 notes tagged |5 will automatically be stripped from the Master record.  Added entries (7xx) and 655 (form genre) headings coded |5 will NOT be automatically stripped and I have my catalogers strip those from the Master.  Without the corresponding justification in the local note, they are just bad "noise" in an MR.

I don't know that the option to create IRs was ever extended to OCLC libraries or it remains a legacy of we few, proud and unapologetic former RLIN libraries <smile>

Dorothy Auyong
Principal Rare Book Cataloger
Huntington Library
dauyong at huntington.org<mailto:dauyong at huntington.org>


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