Laval Hunsucker schrieb:
... But, I know for sure that I
> have seen cases of books whose title pages were
> ( given the design, positioning of the elements,
> fonts used and so on ) of such a sort that what
> the one cataloguer had put respectively in 245$a
> and 245$b, had by another cataloguer elsewhere,
> who was presumably following the same rules,
> actually been put respectively in 245$b and
> 245$a. ( Sorry -- I can't dig out any specific
> examples right now, but they're there. )
>
Publishers' revenge, I guess. They are always ahead of us
with their tricks, to lead catalogers astray so their
books will be harder to find - for readers ought to buy them...
> No big deal ?
>
Depends. In a browsable title index, an annoyance, in
a keyword search, hardly, in record displays, mildly
irritating.
B.E.
Received on Fri Jun 25 2010 - 08:53:02 EDT