Re: Fonts for NB

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

William H. TeBrake wrote:
> That, simply, is not how
> bibliographic software is designed, not just NotaBene, but also not
> EndNote, ProCite, Citation, LibraryMaster, or RIS, and also not library
> catalogs from the Library of Congress to WorldCat and all the software
> from Bookwhere to Zotero that reads library catalogs. In all of these, a
> single record contains all the pertinent information.
Which just proves that librarians aren't database programmers.
And don't know enough to hire db programmers to design a
database. That may be the way it's done, but it's not the way it
should be done. It violates some of the most elementary
principles of database design. And it does cause problems. We
have a supposedly unified catalogue for the whole county's public
library system. And the same authors are entered half a dozen
times, so if one is looking for a book by so-and-so, one has to
look under half a dozen author entries--some with subtle spelling
differences (Clive Staples Lewis, versus C[live] S[taples] Lewis,
versus C. S. Lewis) and some absolutely identical.
--
Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx