[DCRM-L] Reporting duplicates

[Shiner, Elaine P.]

I report them when I feel like I have the time, using the Merge Request Form, available through the Help menu.  I don't think the process is onerous; what takes time is going through all the records you turn up in your search, to make sure they're duplicates. I make the record I just worked on the preferred record, and go down the search list, copying and pasting the OCLC numbers in the request form.  I also try to consolidate the records, so that no good information is lost (not including local notes). If I'm in doubt as to whether a record is a duplicate, I leave it alone.

Elaine


Elaine Shiner,
Rare Book Cataloger
Houghton Library, Harvard University

eshiner at fas.harvard.edu<mailto:eshiner at fas.harvard.edu>
617-998-5219




From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Stewart, Duncan R
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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.

Duncan Stewart
Catalog Librarian
Cataloging and Metadata Department
University of Iowa Libraries,
Iowa City, IA 52242
319-335-5884

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From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu<mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu> [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Deborah J. Leslie
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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?

Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. | Senior Cataloger, Folger Shakespeare Library | djleslie at folger.edu<mailto:djleslie at folger.edu> | 202.675-0369 | 201 East Capitol St., SE, Washington, DC 20003 | www. folger.edu | orcid.org/0000-0001-5848-5467


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