Dtiart said:

>Thanks for sharing this concrete data with the list. I feel that 
>concrete data is the way forward.

Perhaps Roy or some other person could do a similar analysis of the
OCLC database?  If every record which has more than one ISBN is to
become more than one Instance, the number of Instances will be far
greater than the present number of records; in our case, one record
would become 36.  We don't need or want a record for every year of a
yearbook, when the title and subject entries are the same for every
yer, but we do need to be able to find individual volumes by ISBN.


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