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Daniel Boone / by Reuben Gold Thwaites. (OCLC #994154857)

Here’s a fun one from our Special Collections cataloger: This volume had a publication date of 1909 on the title page, a copyright date of 1902 on the verso, but no edition statement anywhere, except next to the title’s entry on the series list in the front matter:

Daniel Boone.
By Reuben Gold Thwaites. Third Edition.

So is that usable in the record?

RDA 2.5.2.2 says that Designation of Edition may be taken from anywhere inside the piece and used unbracketed. Given the difference in years, it made sense that this would be the third edition (and didn’t make a lot of sense that they would reference that edition in the series title list if this was not it), so we included it as an edition statement:

250 __ ǂa Third edition.
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The death train : a personal account of a holocaust survivor / Luba Krugman Gurdus. (OCLC #4825260)

While cataloging a gift book from a large collection, one of our catalogers spotted a letter tucked into one volume; it was written to the book’s author, from Menachem Begin, who was Prime Minister of Israel during the book’s publication. I alerted our Special Collections selector in case they’d like to add this to our collections!

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The BOCA basic mechanical code. (OCLC #2157951)

There are many reasons that materials might reside in a library’s special collections. They may be rare or fragile, but they may just be “a special collection” important to the library, like a reference collection which must stay in the library.

For example, our Design Library keeps building codes in its special collections. These are important to lawyers handling law suits involving buildings, as a building must only meet the code in effect when it was built, not necessarily the current one.