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Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. (OCLC #1751828)

This serial which started in 1891 (found on the shelf like this) appears too brittle to bind (early volumes at least fail the double fold test), which may explain why somebody made these little paper separators to label and “bind” groups of volumes together on the shelf. Which may be fine, as long as nobody touches them! These volumes may need some kind of box or other more stable support, a decision that will be made in binding/labeling, downstream from cataloging.

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Completion of assignment report : July 1981-August 1986 / Russell H. Brannon. (OCLC #39501215)

Long ago when this piece was cataloged and processed, its call number label was mixed up with that of its neighbor, which is not too surprising, given how similar they are:

S540.I56 B730 1986
S540.I56 B370 1986

They are very similar documents, so the only difference in call number is the cutter for the author:

  • Russell Brannon – B730
  • Harry Barnard – B370

This error was discovered during digitization (call numbers on the pieces didn’t match the catalog), and reported to cataloging for correction. Another report from that same year by Mr. Brannon also received the B730 version of the call number, so that was shifted for uniqueness.

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Windows file system troubleshooting / Mike Halsey, MVP, Andrew Bettany, MVP. (OCLC #915033915)

By the time this volume arrived at my desk for cataloging, it was already barcoded on the upper left cover, covering the only place that one of the series statements appeared! I found the title on Amazon.com, and was able to confirm the series statement there:

490 1_ ǂa The expert's voice in Microsoft Windows
830 _0 ǂa Expert's voice in Microsoft Windows.
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Opening prayers : impeachment trial of the president of the United States, January 7-February 12, 1999 / Lloyd John Ogilvie ; [prepared under the direction of Gary Sisco]. (OCLC #41594951)

For typical monographs, we put the barcode in the same place (upper left, covering whatever) but for government documents we don’t obscure text, stamps or stickers, so sometimes it ends up in strange places.