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Hello Will:
There are no holdings attached to that record in OCLC. Therefore, WorldCat
would not list a copy. It looks like Swarthmore entered the record, but they
deleted their holdings for some reason. I believe it's OCLC's policy not to
delete records even if all the holdings have been removed.
We here ran into the same situation.
So to clarify matters I called OCLC support.
They do not delete bib records even when there is no holding library.
They hope that someone will come around at some point and add a holding
eventually.
So your assessment is completely on point.
~Allison Rich
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"Outside of a dog,
a book is probably man's best friend,
and inside of a dog,
it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx"
Allison Rich
Catalogue Librarian
John Carter Brown Library
Providence, Rhode Island
Allison_Rich@brown.edu