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Bibliography in CyberSpace: A Complete Zero?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerry Mckiernan)
Wed May 31 08:36:38 2000
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 14:16:03 -0500
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This Monday's _New York Times_ had a most interesting article about the decision on the part of Oxford University Press to
_not_ publish the 78-page bibliography associated with their edition of _The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero_ by
Robert Kaplan _with_ the printed book.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/052900web-bibliographies.html
Instead the bibliography (and notes) has been published on OPU's Web site
http://www.oup-usa.org/sc/0195128427/index.html
This phenomenon is quite interesting in itself, but perhaps
most interest is the fact that the OCLC
record for this edition (OCLC 41165440) makes no mention of this fact nor does it include a hotlink to the Web bibliography!
Any thoughts/reactions to either would certainly make for some interesting pre-ALA chatter.
/Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
"The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent It"
Alan Kay
