[DCRM-L] When to create a new record?

[Karen Attar]

Hi Thumy,

Use the same record since, as you say, the interleaving and binding in two volumes, as well as the omission of the portrait, are specific to your copy and belong in a local note.

Best wishes,
Karen

Dr Karen Attar
Curator of Rare Books and University Art
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Subject: [DCRM-L] When to create a new record?

Hello,

I don't often catalog rare materials (sadly!) and am looking for some advice.

I have two copies of Newton's Principia from 1726. One copy appears to be the volume described in OCLC #2185758. The second copy also appears to be the one described in that OCLC record except it was bound as two separate volumes with blanks interleaved, and is missing the portrait.

Should I make a new bib record for the interleaved version? Do I use the same OCLC record for both copies and explain the interleaving (is that a word?) in a local note? Something else?

Thanks for any advice/opinions you can provide!
--Thumy


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