On 10/3/05, Geoff Burling llywrch@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
[*] ISTR someone mentioning that it is not uncommon for most important works in at least one field -- railroad history -- to be published by the author & often not listed in these catalogs. I'd be happy to include some or all college, public or private libraries with online catalogs to solve this problem -- but there *needs* to be some easy way to verify that the work cited does exist.
Simular for canals except there you go back to the primary sources which you dig out of various record offices (which for some reason are often in a completely different part of the country to the canal).
-- geni