If the professionals did catalogue the subjects (contents and the author names)
perhaps I would moan less, but I came across another couple of cases recently.
I got a box of cheap books at an auction, one rough book I looked
through has an excellent discussion on a famous colliery disaster.
A google search of
"investigation into the causes of fracture in the Hartley Colliery pit
engine beam"
finds archive.org's uncorrected scan of the contents page in a version
of the book and a lot of secondary sources.
Using the British Library's search does not find it although they have the book.
widening the search to "Hartley colliery" is better but is mostly
poems and sermons.
If you wish to research into the demolition of the ship Mauritania
1906-1938 after some investigation you find references to a talk
"Demolition of the Mauretania M. Wilkinson".
A search for that finds a few spurious and my site (not professional I
catalogued the subjects!) and Worldcat which points at the copy in the
National Maritime Museum which seems to the the paper on its own.
mine is bound in an annual volume "Manchester Association of Engineers
transactions 1939-1940".
So why did the copy in National Maritime Museum not come top of the
google list, answers on a postcard to the National Maritime Museum :)
Dave Caroline
Received on Fri Nov 09 2012 - 06:23:15 EST