Hi, Peter,
No, you are not alone; what concerns me, too, is that the error rate seems
high: both I and a Renaissance colleague here have had errors in the titles
of articles we've published. On the other hand, it is a huge work to enter
all that data, and some mistakes and delays are inevitable.
What I want to know: what can we all do to help improve the situation? DO
you suppose it would help if we submitted our publication citations with
keywords to MLAIB on disk or in electronic format? I would be happy to do
that if it would ease the MLAIB's burden and improve results for us all.
What do others think?
A. Coldiron
www.english.lsu.edu
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Subject: Re: MLAB
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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