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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

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