On 26 July 2011 21:22, Chris Gray <cpgray_at_uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> Wouldn't you need disclaimers like this on any date a librarian assigned to
> many types of work? A lot of scholarly labor is hidden behind assigning
> dates to works.
Yes and no. For most works, "year of first publication" is good enough
as an approximation; for some older works, when that's ambiguous, an
approximate decade or century ("c. 1590") would work.
There's going to be some where it's simpler to leave it off, but then,
there's also plenty of works where the authorship is hotly debated, or
contested, or speculative, and we happily catalogue them regardless!
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray_at_dunelm.org.uk
Received on Tue Jul 26 2011 - 18:07:30 EDT