Alev Akman writes:
How can this be mandatory? We've got a few composite books, that don't have a single print analogue, and many books where it would be hard or arbitrary to find an edition to get this information from.
I was speaking for our future records. I am aware that some of our files are even compilations of various additions. Hopefully we are getting away from works obtained that way, maybe even redoing them. If we want dependable works, we should be able to prove our source. No more chickening out for copyright reasons.
It still can't be mandatory until we're willing to seek out editions for every single book we've done, either the exact same edition or be willing to update the text to an edition we can find. More towards what I was thinking, there are books that are compilations of several printed books. PG recently posted The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses from Men and The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses from Women. We could break those down into the individual 8 page pamphlets, but PG has generally discouraged that. Likewise, if I can ever find the papers, a book of short stories by Edna St. V. Millay will go to DP, consistenting of several stories written for magazines but never collected as a book. There's no reason for us to break that up, either. If you enter "Het Esperanto" into the LoC catalog, you get "[Language, languages, and writing pamphlets]./1819-1947/51 items". So this is a practice that LoC engages in, in its own way. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm