OK, that's fine....just throwing ideas out there.  --Steve

Steve Shadle/Serials Access Librarian         shadle@u.washington.edu
NASIG Past-President
University of Washington Libraries              Phone: (206) 685-3983
Seattle, WA 98195-2900                            Fax: (206) 543-0854

On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Hall, Jack wrote:

> Thanks, Steve. I truly do not believe anybody here used the latest entry record and changed it into successive entry. I have been here longer than we have had the record (dating back to before OCLC even had a format for serials). Only professional catalogers have ever cataloged serials here and we have never used latest entry. . I think the fact that hundreds of libraries have their holdings on the record strongly implies this as well. So many libraries would not have used a latest entry record. I'm convinced the successive entry record in OCLC got changed to latest entry after we used it.
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> Jack
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> Jack Hall
> Manager of Cataloging Services
> Linguistics Librarian
> University of Houston Libraries
> Houston, TX 77204-2000
> phone: 713 743 9687
> fax: 713 743 9748
> email: jhall@uh.edu
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> From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven C Shadle
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 6:42 PM
> To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Serial record: our catalog versus the OCLC record
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> Hi Jack -- In our local catalog, we have a series of successive entry records (and can't speak to what #1782411 looked like previously as we never used it and don't have our holdings attached):
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> #3262368  1962 to current: Accounting trends & techniques
> #7267100  1950 to 1961: Accounting trends and techniques in published corporate annual reports
> #8354480  1949: Accounting techniques used in published corporate annual reports
> #8354419  1948: Accounting trends in corporate reports
> #7267103  1947: Accounting survey of 525 corporate reports
>
> Are you sure you're predecessor didn't export/update the latest entry record decades ago and made it successive entry locally?  Since the successive records weren't authenticated until 1991, I can very easily see hundreds of libraries having their holdings on the LC latest entry records through the decades and never bothering to catch the change.  --Steve
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> Steve Shadle/Serials Access Librarian         shadle@u.washington.edu
> NASIG Past-President
> University of Washington Libraries              Phone: (206) 685-3983
> Seattle, WA 98195-2900                            Fax: (206) 543-0854
>
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Hall, Jack wrote:
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>>
>> For the serial: Accounting trends & techniques we have OCLC 1782411 in our catalog. It is clearly a “successive entry” record (S/L 0).
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>> However that record in OCLC is now a “latest entry” record (S/L 1) and there are 510 holdings on the record. I thought that seemed odd. Maybe other libraries used it when it was successive entry, too.
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>> Jack Hall
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>> Manager of Cataloging Services
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>> Linguistics Librarian
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>> University of Houston Libraries
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>> Houston, TX 77204-2000
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>> A Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university
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>> phone: 713 743 9687
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>> fax: 713 743 9748
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>> email: jhall@uh.edu
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