Analyze that

So, having officially been an analyst for 2 days, the way the records are managed is similar to the way our Endeavor Voyager records were managed. Every item has various different records, with different information on each item. The barcode on teh item record, the title on the bib records, the holdings record.... I realize there are advantages to spreading item information across more than one record, but it still seems to me it'd be a hell of a lot easier if all the information was on the same record.