Joe Hourcle wrote: > > Perhaps a slightly different perspective on looking at requirements: > > What should be easier to do, but is a pain currently? > > > My answers to that won't point to a more simplified data structure I think some are hoping for. 1. For a serial title, identify if a particular issue of that serial is held, and where. 2. Group alternate editions of the same work. 3. Identify the form/genre of an item There are more. This is what immediately comes to mind. Most of these issues are issues of metadata control, and not trivial to solve.