The sad problem is that bibliographical reference works are now
considered to be chiefly money making efforts. This is my complaint
about the ESTC, it is my complaint about the new Oxford DNB. If they are
to be so expensive let the publishers begin with handsome reimbursements
for the compilers.
Gabriel Austin
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From: exlibris@library.berkeley.edu
[mailto:exlibris@library.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Everett Wilkie
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 9:58 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [EXLIBRIS:31762] Internet service in reading rooms
Being one of these researchers who lives and dies by his laptop
computer, I
am often frustrated that there is no Internet access for an individual
researcher's machine in most reading rooms. Most places do have at
least
one computer for public use that has Internet access, but there is no
real
way to easily transfer any information one finds to one's own machine.
I am
thinking especially of ESTC records and other databases that hold
information about books and of bibliographies, many of which are now
on-line. It is somewhat frustrating not to be able to compare on the
fly
what those sources have to offer to the book in hand on my own
machine...