[DCRM-L] What Belongs in a Master Record?

[Harriett M Smith]

The 700 has sanctus rather than sanctis...

Harriett Smith

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One other thing: What's with the doubling of the 100/240 with a 700 02?

RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Noble, Richard <richard_noble at brown.edu <mailto:richard_noble at brown.edu> > wrote:


	I am thrashing about in the underbrush of OCLC records for incunabula, trying to create the occasional orderly clearing, but in the end I am wondering what special unwritten rules there are concerning master records that allow for such an omnium gatherum of copy-specific elements as OCLC #56414568 (LCCN 2004574211 with revisions by Detroit PL and Columbia).
	
	
	The information is interesting, no doubt of that; but there are facilities for accessing it in more coherent form by way of the institutional catalogs to which OCLC provides relatively easy access. I certainly don't want most of it in my own institution's record (though it will be worth noting that the Brown and the LC copies both have a Buxheim stamp).
	
	
	Would I be justified in updating this record in part to delete all copy-specific that has no bearing on identification of, or actual variation in copies of, the  manifestation? This question often arises in connection with LC-based records, of course, but lots of libraries do this sort of thing, even adding copy-specific information to the OCLC record rather than making local edits. Is this just shared cataloging with a vengeance?
	
	
	RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
	BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187 <tel:401-863-1187> 
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