Two Kinds of Power: An Essay on Bibliographical ControlThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Bibliographical Universe | 6 |
Describing and Exploiting | 20 |
Relevance | 29 |
Bibliographical Instruments and Their Specifications | 55 |
Subjects and the Sense of Position | 69 |
Indexing Coupling Hunting | 93 |
Consultants and Aids | 114 |
Reliability | 125 |
Adequacy and Bibliographical Policy | 132 |
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Two Kinds of Power: An Essay on Bibliographical Control Patrick Wilson,Donald W. Koepp Limited preview - 1968 |
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