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@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.[*]
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