Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 567.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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[1] From: "P. T. Rourke" <ptrourke@mediaone.net> (35)
Subject: Re: 13.0564 have we been had?
[2] From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@mdah.state.ms.us> (13)
Subject: Re: 13.0564 have we been had?
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Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 10:27:47 +0100
From: "P. T. Rourke" <ptrourke@mediaone.net>
Subject: Re: 13.0564 have we been had?
Well, actually, the perpetrator went to so much work to make it believable
(I counted a couple of hundred entries; it looks like the values for the
ISBN field have been replaced with color information) that the hoax is in
effect a functioning demonstration. I don't know library cataloguing
systems well enough, but if one could add a color field to the physical
description section (where size and page numbers are listed), one could do
this. The question is whether it would be worth doing.
All in all, a pretty constructive hoax if you ask me.
Patrick Rourke
Massachusetts (nothing to do with NE School of Law or the hoax under
examination)
> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 21:38:23 +0100
> From: "Tarvers, Josephine K." <tarversj@exchange.winthrop.edu>
> >
> According to one of our librarians, we've been taken!
> Jo
> ------------
> Jo Koster Tarvers, Ph.D.
> Department of English
> Winthrop University
> Rock Hill, SC 29733-0001
> (803) 323-4557; fax (803) 323-4837
>
> >Jo,
> >
> >You've been a victim of a hoax. This was originally posted on April 1.
The
> >perpetrator did spend a lot of time to make it very believable.
> >
> >Larry
> >
> >Laurance R. Mitlin
> >Associate Dean of Library Services
> >Winthrop University
> >Rock Hill, South Carolina 29733-0001
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Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 10:28:20 +0100
From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@mdah.state.ms.us>
Subject: Re: 13.0564 have we been had?
I have to say that the hoax may have been a very good idea--our
librarians here, with a small and very focused collection, while
entertained and not taking it seriously as something we could do,
nevertheless could see the utility of such a search possibility,
particularly when combined with a fragmentary title and particularly for
our largely lay public constituency. It may be that only academics find
such confusion before the deluge of material available funny enough to
make a joke of it.
Pat Galloway
-- Patricia Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205-0571 voice 601-359-6863
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