Hi Jack -- In our local catalog, we have a series of successive entry records (and can't speak to what #1782411 looked like previously as we never used it and don't have our holdings attached):

#3262368  1962 to current: Accounting trends & techniques
#7267100  1950 to 1961: Accounting trends and techniques in published corporate annual reports
#8354480  1949: Accounting techniques used in published corporate annual reports
#8354419  1948: Accounting trends in corporate reports
#7267103  1947: Accounting survey of 525 corporate reports

Are you sure you're predecessor didn't export/update the latest entry record decades ago and made it successive entry locally?  Since the successive records weren't authenticated until 1991, I can very easily see hundreds of libraries having their holdings on the LC latest entry records through the decades and never bothering to catch the change.  --Steve

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On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Hall, Jack wrote:

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> For the serial: Accounting trends & techniques we have OCLC 1782411 in our catalog. It is clearly a “successive entry” record (S/L 0).
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> However that record in OCLC is now a “latest entry” record (S/L 1) and there are 510 holdings on the record. I thought that seemed odd. Maybe other libraries used it when it was successive entry, too.
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