Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 569.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 18:08:35 +0100
From: Nancy Kushigian <nancyk@libpo.ucdavis.edu>
Subject: Re: 13.0567 being had and liking it
As a practicing reference librarian for a large academic collection, I can
tell you that cataloging books by color would be a disaster! Books
change color with edition . . . not to mention the problems created by
such a scheme for those of our patrons who are color-blind . . .
and for the reference librarian trying to find the red book that's really
not.
Librarians here in Davis really liked the scam . . . and envy our
colleagues who had the time to engage in such frivolity!
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Nancy Kushigian, Ph.D., MLIS.
General Editor,
British Women Romantic Poets Project
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/English/BWRP/
Shields Library
University of California, Davis
Davis, California 95616
530-754-4337
njkushigian@ucdavis.edu
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On Mon, 1 May 2000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote:
>
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 567.
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
>
> [1] From: "P. T. Rourke" <ptrourke@mediaone.net> (35)
> >
> [2] From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@mdah.state.ms.us> (13)
> Subject: Re: 13.0564 have we been had?
>
>
> --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
> --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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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