Re: [IUG] Two separate records with identical record numbers

["McDonald, Stephen" <Steve dot McDonald at tufts dot edu>]

Homai Faridi asked:
> When cataloging new records, esp. when overlaying the records with a
> good bib record from external library catalogs, Millennium acts
> strangely. The system considers each ISBNs as one individual record!
> Therefore, normally, each bib record is displayed as two separate
> records with identical record number both on the cataloging module
> (client) and the OPAC! I realized that this is also happening to
> another record with 240 and 245 as two separate records with identical
> record numbers!!!

Millennium is not treating them as separate records.  It is merely listing that record under both ISBN's, and both titles.  If the record number is the same, then it is just one record--it simply is appearing in your list twice.  This is normal, and due to the fact that both ISBN's have to be in the index.  The browse list simply lists the results of a search on the relevant index, so the same record gets listed twice, under each entry in the index.

					Steve McDonald
					Steve dot mcdonald at tufts dot edu


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