Re: our profession's bibliographic information

From: Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:11:55 -0500
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Dec 21, 2010, at 10:47 AM, B.G. Sloan wrote:

> Isn't there already data in a bib record the could let you to do this, i.e., number of pages?

Of course there is already data in a bib record for the number of pages, but the number of pages in a book is ambiguous. Such a thing does a poor job of telling anybody the length of a book. The number of words in a book (or just about any other bibliographic thing) is much less ambiguous.

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Eric Lease Morgan
University of Notre Dame

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