>I knew the moment I posted the message that I was going to be rapped on the
>knuckles! Fine. I don't mind. But I would like to reiterate my opinion that
>one thing is to exchange ideas and information, and I am all for it; another
>to ask for information that can be easily gathered simply by looking up a name
>in a library catalogue such as the BL or the Library of Congress available in
>any university library, or in the Encyclopedia Britannica. I am no
>musicologist, but if I come across some unknown composer I do not ask my
>colleagues in the Music Department but look the name up in the New Grove to
>begin with. Then, if I don't find him/her there, or in any catalogue, I ask
>the advice of the librarians. If the librarians can't come up with anything, I
>go to my musicologist colleagues as a last resort. Those who know me know also
>that I can't stand ivory towers or academic preserves, and I firmly believe in
>a free and generous exchange of information. What I meant to do with my
>message was to contribute the basic methodological point of how to go about
>finding information.
>Giovanni Carsaniga
>
D'accordo, Giovanni, e grazie; andava detto.>
Corinna Salvadori Lonergan, Department of Italian, Trinity College, DUBLIN 2
Tel: 353 1 608 1847, Fax: 353 1 608 2062
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