The following argument is not valid. I can think of several titles
relevant to the the history of technology which are not in the BL
catalogue, and not listed on the C19 Short Title Catalogue which
covers a range of copyright libraries. This is particularly true for
trade catalogues which are outside outside UK copyright deposit rules
and so never recorded.
On 3 Oct 2005 at 21:33, wikien-l-request(a)Wikipedia.org wrote:
An even easier solution: the holdings of the Library
of Congress is
accessible from the Internet. I would expect that the same could be
said for the British Library, the Biblioteque Nationale (sp?) in
Paris, & the equivalents in Germany, Italy, Japan, & Australia.
(However, funding for such useful projects always seem to be
lacking.)
Any citation from a source that cannot be found at one of those
sites
is considered invalid; & considering that, by law,
a copy of every
book printed in the US or the UK ends up at the respective national
library, one would have to work hard to find a reliable source not
in
one of those catalogs.[*]
Tony Woolrich
Canal Side, Huntworth, Bridgwater, Somerset UK
Phone (44) 01278 663020
Email apw(a)ap-woolrich.co.uk
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