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Coal conversion systems : technical data book / prepared for U.S. Department of Energy, Assistant Secretary for Energy Technology, Division of Coal Conversion. (OCLC #4131471)

We received as part of a gift an updating loose-leaf resource in three binders, and then discovered that we already had two copies on the shelf. But how to determine which is more up-to-date? Check the included metadata!

Each version included a full table of contents, with symbols indicating which sections were already included, and which were in preparation or planning phases. Rather than comparing that actual contents, I was able to compare these annotated tables of contents to determine that the copy we received as a gift had been more fully updated than the ones already in the collection.

Also, the gift copy was three full binders compared to the one-binder copies on the shelf, which was my other clue.

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[Liḳrat Shabat ṿe-Yom ṭov] = Likrat Shabbat : worship, study, and song : for Sabbath and festival services and for the home / compiled and translated by Sidney Greenberg ; edited by Jonathan D. Levine. (OCLC #9057683)

Not all administrative metadata we know about the piece ends up in the bib record, or even stays with the piece. (We removed the tape and the post-it during cataloging of this gift to the library.)

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That’s some good metadata from UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center! (Thanks, Deirdre!)

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Paris : les boulevards / illustrations by Charles Franch ; text by Pamela Golbin. (OCLC #884298094)

Many books include on the title page verso a printer’s key which looks like a line of numbers:

    9 8 7 6 5 4 3

The smallest number present in the key indicates the print run of the volume you have in hand, so the key above would indicate the third print run for this edition. For each subsequent run, they remove the smallest number from the key.

This title’s printer’s key also includes years:

    2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 / 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

This volume was printed in 2015 and was the first printing, so for future printings they will also remove years as necessary, so the lowest one can indicate the printing year.

Date of Manufacture (RDA 2.10.6) is not a core element in RDA, and LC-PCC PS only considers it core for rare materials, so we typically do not record it in records.

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A catalog of reproductions and publications : color slides, books, catalogs, educational materials / National Gallery of Art. (OCLC #906962810)

It is said that metadata is a love note to the future, but sometimes that correspondence is vague and you end up in a “big laundry” situation.

I don’t know what “OCIR hole punch” means, but the years written on the shelf-list card and the label lead me to believe that we used to have 1969 volume, which was replaced with the 1971 version when it arrived, keeping the same SuDoc number. Lacking any other information, I cataloged the new volume on its own record with this SuDoc number.