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Aulularia / T. Maccius Plautus ; with notes critical and exegetical and an introduction by Wilhelm Wagner. (OCLC #968214555)

This print-on-demand facsimile of an 1876 book was missing a page (perhaps because the original was missing a page), so the printer included the missing content as a photocopy from what appears to be a different edition. We’ll probably make a pocket for it, as we would folded maps.

A few years ago I presented at the ALA Preservation Administrators Interest Group about reprints and reproductions as preservation copies, in which I caution against replacing brittle originals with crisp new photocopies; though much of the metadata may be the same, you may end up with slightly different content. (This was not such a replacement, and the content is likely fine for most purposes, but this kind of thing always gives me pause.)

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Dějiny české řeči a literatury, v redakcích z roku 1791, 1792 a 1818. Vydal Benjamin Jedliěka. (OCLC #12075881)

This gift book arrived in cataloging with some of its pages still uncut! It will have to go to preservation to have them cut before it is made available to our patrons.

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Cluster molecules of the p-block elements / Catherine E. Housecroft. (OCLC #28377229)

Water damage is a mess, and it’s often not worth the work to salvage an individual volume, especially if it is not a rare book. We were able to replace this water-damaged paperback with a nice new hardback copy.