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Barack Obama / Coleen Degnan-Veness. (OCLC #756278154)

We don’t normally buy (or even accept as gifts) multiple copies of titles, but because of the way these readers will be used (permanent reserves for ESL classes), we bought 2-5 copies of each title.

In Voyager, I usually only use “Make a Copy” (under the Record menu) for testing features like record overlay. I use it so rarely that in my daily workflow I forget it exists!

For this project, I remembered it, and used it frequently. Though all copies of a title share a call number, each needs its own holdings (MFHD) record with an individual item/barcode attached. For each title in this collection, I made one good MFHD with the call number I wanted, then made several copies of that MFHD on the bib. Populating a mfhd from scratch does not take many clicks, but with over 100 of these volumes to work through, I took shortcuts where I could find them!