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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Celeste )
Mon Feb 27 09:24:27 1995

To: Sarah Mitchell <smitchel@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ad-cat@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 09:23:59
From: efc@MIT.EDU (Eric Celeste )

Sarah asks...
> Is your 'strip the leader from the OCLC no.' just a variation on the
> earlier issue in this list about the 'ocl7 and ocm prefixes'?

No, as far as I can tell it's not the same thing. The "ocl7" issue concerns 
the garbage in front of the OCLC number. The leader issue concerns garbage 
after the OCLC number. I don't think the leader info is being indexed (at 
least I don't see it in the index), but it is present on the record.

...Eric

Eric Celeste / MIT Libraries / 14E-210A / 617-253-0633 / efc@mit.edu



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