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Re: OCLC (World Cat)



That makes perfectly good sense.  Thank you. (I have run across this
before).  Norman


At 12:05 PM 11/20/2007, you wrote:
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.

Hope this helps.

Best,

Will



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-----Original Message----- From: Rare book and manuscripts [mailto:EXLIBRIS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU] On Behalf Of Norman Kane Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:52 AM To: EXLIBRIS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: [EXLIBRIS-L] OCLC (World Cat)


OCLC (WorldCat) will occasionally list an item as having one location but the detailed entry does not list any copy, as for instance http://firstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSFETCH?fetchtype=fullrecord:sessionid=fsap p11-45633-f98nf6lm-jab2mk:entitypagenum=11:0:recno=22:resultset=4:format=FI: next=html/record.html:bad=error/badfetch.html:entitytoprecno=22:entitycurrec no=22:numrecs=1

Any explanation ? Thanks, Norman


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