[WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 27, Issue 20/ Copyroght libraies as a source

Tue Oct 4 07:09:04 UTC 2005

The following argument is not valid. I can think of several titles 
relevant to the the history of technology which are not in the BL 
catalogue, and not listed on the C19 Short Title Catalogue which 
covers a range of copyright libraries. This is particularly true for 
trade catalogues which are outside outside UK copyright deposit rules 
and so never recorded. 

On 3 Oct 2005 at 21:33, wikien-l-request at Wikipedia.org wrote:

> An even easier solution: the holdings of the Library of Congress is
> accessible from the Internet. I would expect that the same could be
> said for the British Library, the Biblioteque Nationale (sp?) in
> Paris, & the equivalents in Germany, Italy, Japan, & Australia.
> (However, funding for such useful projects always seem to be 
lacking.)
> 
> Any citation from a source that cannot be found at one of those 
sites
> is considered invalid; & considering that, by law, a copy of every
> book printed in the US or the UK ends up at the respective national
> library, one would have to work hard to find a reliable source not 
in
> one of those catalogs.[*]

Tony Woolrich
Canal Side, Huntworth, Bridgwater, Somerset UK
Phone (44) 01278 663020
Email apw at ap-woolrich.co.uk

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