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It's good advice to normalise to pre-composed form, but that doesn't solve the problem the previous poster mentioned as not everything exists as a composed form
by arp242 2y ago
It's good advice to normalise to pre-composed form, but that doesn't solve the problem the previous poster mentioned as not everything exists as a composed form. That said: most things do have a composed form, so you can probably get away with it – right up to when you can't.
- quink 2y agoYeah, working an a library system our path was to compose everything (taking into account of course that the octet sizes specified in the directory may or may not actually be accurate depending on whatever system produced the record) and around the same time deprecate any pretense we had of supporting MARC-8.