On Jul 26, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> I wish a next-generation library catalog would include a field for date, not the date of the publication, but the date the thing was conceived.
I understand the need for a date published in a library catalog, and I'm not advocating for one and only one date in a bibliographic record.
Instead, I want an additional date denoting when -- in all likely hood -- the idea expressed by the creator of the work was conceived/embodied. Put another way, I want to sort search results from older to new. Find all of Shakespeare, sort by date, and then I want to read the oldest one first. Find all things regarding New-Platonism, sort by date, and start reading at the end and go back in time.
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Eric Lease Morgan
University of Notre Dame
Received on Tue Jul 26 2011 - 14:51:26 EDT