I was wondering if this group has had the same experience with the MLA
Bibliography that I've had and continue to have, i.e., huge, multi-year
delays between getting something published and getting it listed. I
recently looked up an article by a friend published in Shakespeare
Quarterly in 1997, and IT wasn't in there. For my own material, I've tried
sending them copies return-receipt mail, which means that somebody has to
actually sign for it, with limited success. Given that the MLAB is still
the most comprehensive bibliography for literary studies (supplemented, to
be sure, by ITER and the World Shakespeare Bibliography), these delays seem
to me a genuine problem.
Am I alone in noticing this, and am I alone in considering it a serious issue?
signed,
Wondering in San Diego
(Peter C. Herman)
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