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Performance evaluation of bridges with structural bridge deck overlays (SBDO) / by James J. Griffin, Issam E. Harik and Ching Chiaw Choo. (OCLC #866579013)

There was already a James J. Griffin in the authority file, a professor (now emeritus) in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University of Maryland. His vita does not mention this publication, or have any evidence that he is a structural engineer; this report is likely by a different author, so we had to make his heading unique in some way.

We did not know this James J. Griffin’s middle name (to build a fuller form), or date of birth, so we followed RDA 9.6.1.9 and used his profession/occupation to distinguish him:

Griffin, James J. (Structural engineer)
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The paternity of Abraham Lincoln; was he the son of Thomas Lincoln? An essay on the chastity of Nancy Hanks by William E. Barton. (OCLC #882677)

The form of Lincoln’s heading on the bottom card is the current one; the form on the top card has already been modified once by hand, but not quite to the current form – the original form on the top card is not even in the current authority record. It does have a link to a similar heading, United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) describing that role, though it is not for use as a subject.

Maintaining consistent name authority is much easier and less error-prone with a modern ILS. Always control your headings in OCLC when you can to help this process!

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Le collier rouge : roman / Jean-Christophe Rufin. (OCLC #873465083)

This rush book came to me only needing a call number; fortunately, these are pretty straightforward for fiction from an established author. This author has an established class number/cutter in his authority record:

    053 _0 ǂa PQ2678.U357

so I only need to add a cutter for the title (with initial non-filing characters ignored):

    PQ2678.U357 C65 2014