[Sca-cooks] 2016 Silly Season Starts

Johnna Holloway johnnae at mac.com
Sun Jul 31 14:48:23 PDT 2016


All bibliographic catalogs and databases have their errors and inconsistencies, but Worldcat beats using the printed volumes of the NUC when it comes to a quick search.

Johnna

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> On Jul 31, 2016, at 1:19 PM, JIMCHEVAL at aol.com wrote:
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> Worldcat is indeed a precious tool. Regular users should be aware however  
> that it is not complete. I was surprised to discover someone had found one 
> of my  own books in her local library, one not indexed in worldcat. On the 
> other hand,  one of my books is listed as being at a certain library, but that 
> library no  longer holds it. Not a big deal - these are what we call in IT "edge cases" - but something  to consider for some research.
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> Jim  Chevallier
> _www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 
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> FRENCH BREAD HISTORY:  Seventeenth century bread
> http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2016/02/french-food-history-seventeenth-century
> .html
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> In a message dated 7/31/2016 4:28:13 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
> johnnae at mac.com writes:
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> It's a  research tool of the first  order.
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