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Due to how the thesis metadata from ProQuest is processed, the electronic bibliographic records may need some minor editing prior to the creation and attachment of the holdings record representing circulating library print copy. The editing of bibliographic records are is sporadic and inconsistent ... meaning the editing of one bibliographic record may not be the same as the next. However, the types of edits seem to be relatively consistent. The majority of edits consist of punctuation, proper usage of upper and lower case lettering, illustrations or no illustrations, adding the appropriate URI for the thesis advisor and implementing the correct 948 stat code for LTS to represent the addition of the newly created holdings record.
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Example of a thesis bibliographic record in RDA format:
040 |a NIC NIC |b eng |e rda |c NIC
100 1 |a Blume, Maria, |e author.
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