Coyle, Copies, Duplicates, Identification
From Karen Coyle’s Copies, Duplicates, Identification:
In at least three projects I’m working on now I am seeing problems with the conflict between managing copies (which libraries do) and managing content (which users want). Even before we go chasing after the FRBR concept of the work, we are already dealing with what FRBR-izers would call “different items of the same manifestation.” Given that the items we tend to hold were mass produced, and thus there are many copies of them, it seems odd that we have never found a way to identify the published set that those items belong to.