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Annual report of Walker D. Hines, Director General of Railroads, 1919. Northwestern Region / R.H. Aishton, regional director. (OCLC #752789209)

Even adopting RDA’s “take what you see” attitude, I had a hard time determining who the author of this document was: R.H. Aishton? Walker D. Hines?

There are records for many similar documents in OCLC, all “Annual report of Walker D. Hines” from various regions and departments with their own directors, and each with “United States Railroad Administration” as the main entry. I stuck with this pattern, putting the administration in a 110, and with no access point for Walker D. Hines; I could not identify a role for him, other than the named representative of that body. I put the regional director in a 700 as a “compiler” of the document’s data.

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La inmutabilidad divina en el contexto de la idea de Dios de la Patrística incipiente / Ana Carrasco Romero. (OCLC #52599176)

RDA 7.9.1.3 details which elements should be recorded when cataloging a dissertation or thesis (degree, institution, year) but does not specify MARC fields or punctuation.

The LC-PCC PS for that rule gives a preference for recording these elements in separate subfields of 502, with no surrounding punctuation:

502 __ ǂb Ph. D. ǂc University of Toronto ǂd 1974

It also says not to routinely convert such notes from AACR2-style, so I left this one as is when upgrading the record:

502 __ ǂa Thesis (doctoral)--Pontificia universitas sanctae crucis,
  1995.