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Date: | Thu, 30 Jan 2014 20:14:31 +0000 |
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Hi,
We've been working on a serials overlay project recently and we're seeing something unusual. We had exported over 30,000 OCLC records to a Marc file and opened them in MarcEdit for review. Many of these records are quite old and have some 7 and 8 digit OCLC numbers.
I'm used to seeing a \ at the end of the OCLC number as a placeholder representing a [space], but my understanding is that \ is replaced by a [space] when compiled back to Marc. Am I wrong about that?
We overlaid the records today and it went pretty well, but there were 5 records that didn't overlay. There are many reasons that might have happened, but what's concerning me is that those new records contain a \ at the end of the OCLC #s.
I looked at the file we used to overlay and there weren't double \s in those 035s. screen shots below.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Tim
Aleph
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