[Sca-cooks] library searching was Peppers
    Johnna Holloway 
    johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
       
    Fri Jan 21 06:28:24 PST 2005
    
    
  
You can always ask for help of course. There are any number of
professional librarians on this list that can help you with advice
as to how to better construct a search or run a search for you
if you are failing to find something. It's what we were trained to do.
Johnnae
>>>Why substitute 'v' for 'u'???  
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>>It's the nature of Cataloging. Rather than get involved in trying to 
>>*interpret* the data, they try to _transcribe_ exactly as written. If 
>>the printer used a v for a u, that's how they will transcribe it. No 
>>matter if they are perfectly sure that it's meant to be a u instead. Jadwiga
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>Okay.  That's interesting.  Maybe that's why I come up with bupkis when I try to search for
>certain things on the internet...  I had no idea.
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>William de Grandfort
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