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Biometrika tables for statisticians. Volume 2 / edited by E.S. Pearson and H.O. Hartley. (OCLC #223625397)

Despite this 1972 volume being marked as Volume 2, I was most comfortable having it on its own record in the catalog. The preface even says “We claim no more than that our Volume 2 is one of many possible companions to Volume 1.” The volume does not have its own unique title, so Volume 2 is in the 245 ǂn (number of part).

One reason for the oddness is that Volume 1 of this title had a lengthy publishing history of its own, described in our 1984 printing:

    First Edition 1954
    Reprinted 1956
    Second edition 1958
    Reprinted 1962
    Third Edition 1966
    Reprinted with additions 1970
    Reprinted with corrections 1976
    Reprinted 1984

Though we have several versions of Volume 1 in our collection (1958, 1966, 1976), the piece in hand is not specifically “part 2” of any of our volume 1’s.

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Histoire de la virilité / sous la direction de Alain Corbin, Jean-Jacques Courtine, Georges Vigarello. (OCLC #759002101)

We bought only the third volume of a three-volume set. Though there is an individual record for this volume in OCLC, it is lower encoding level than the set record, and I didn’t feel there was much to be gained by cataloging/classifying this volume separately from the rest of the set.

I used the set record for our holdings/catalog, but specified which volumes we owned in our mfhd record:

852 0_ ‡b yl,4 ‡h HQ1090 ‡i .H57 2011
866 41 ‡a v.3
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Erfahrungen mit der Digitalisierung von rastermässig erfassten Linienstrukturen / Thomas Kreifelts … [et al.]. (OCLC #2794543)

If a set of books is part of an analyzed series that is classed together, the call number in the bib record for the set might be recorded in a format like:

    QA1 ǂb .G344 no. 30, etc.

That is, both volumes have a call number that starts QA1 .G344, but have enumeration based on their location in the series:

    QA1 .G344 no. 30
    QA1 .G344 no. 37

In our collection, we classify this particular series separately, so the call numbers for the two volumes in the set actually ended up as:

    GA102.4.E4 E73 1974 v.1
    GA102.4.E4 E73 1974 v.2
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The chemistry of organozinc compounds / edited by Zvi Rappoport and Ilan Marek. (OCLC #70054225)

If Part 1 of this set has R-Zn, does Part 2 have A-Q? Though this is a multi-volume set, that R-Zn does not describe the content of just this volume; it describes the whole set!

Zn is zinc, and the list of abbreviations following the table of contents says that R stands for “any radical”. An organozinc compound contains carbon-to-zinc chemical bonds, so “R-Zn” appears to be a diagram with R as a wildcard.

Similarly, I have in hand The chemistry of organomanganese compounds which says “R-Mn”, and The chemistry of organolithium compounds, Volume 2 which says “R-Li”.

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Ashland, Kentucky origin & destination traffic survey report : transportation needs study / undertaken by Vogt, Ivers & Associates. (OCLC #82928188)

The OCLC copy I found was not only very brief:

040     ǂa JCR ǂc JCR
110 2_ ǂa Vogt, Ivers and Associates.
245 10 ǂa Ashland, Kentucky origin & destination traffic survey
            report : ǂb transportation needs study.

but also clearly only for Volume I of the set. The introduction describes the “Ashland Transportation Study report” which would be complete in two volumes: Volume I, the report of the Origin and Destination Survey (this volume); and Volume II, which would report on a different topic. If I had both pieces in hand, I might have cataloged them as a set, but I have no evidence the volume 2 was even published, so I completed the record for just the one volume. I described the apparent “set” aspect in a note, and included the set’s title as a title added entry for discovery.

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Computer programs for chemical engineering education. (OCLC #1434748)

The set containing the volume on the left is on its way to storage; we happen to have two additional copies of this volume in a smaller format. The smaller edition (also headed to storage) had been cataloged on its own monograph record, but as far as i can tell it is just a shrunk down copy of the larger one, except for the publisher (which sounds more like a printer/manufacturer to me), so I considered these to be added copies of the volume.

There is potential benefit to making that one volume more discoverable though subject access on its own record, but also benefit to tidiness and keeping the set together, so this was a judgment call. The title/author are included in a contents note in the set record, so the volume is still discoverable that way if somebody is looking for it.