On 10/3/05, Geoff Burling <llywrch(a)agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
[*] ISTR someone mentioning that it is not uncommon
for most important
works in at least one field -- railroad history -- to be published by
the author & often not listed in these catalogs. I'd be happy to
include some or all college, public or private libraries with online
catalogs to solve this problem -- but there *needs* to be some easy way
to verify that the work cited does exist.
Simular for canals except there you go back to the primary sources
which you dig out of various record offices (which for some reason are
often in a completely different part of the country to the canal).
--
geni