My colleague Constrance Malpas is inviting comments on the use of MARC Field 583 “to record and effectively disclose local print archiving commitments so that libraries might better judge the relative risk of local de-duplication efforts or, conversely, where maximum preservation benefit might be gained through a distributed archiving effort”.
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