Bibliography in CyberSpace: A Complete Zero?

[Gerry Mckiernan]

  This Sunday's New York Times had a most interesting article about the decision on the part of Oxford University Press to 
_not_ publish the 78-page bibliography associated with their edition of _The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero_ by 
Robert Kaplan _with_ the printed book. 

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/052900web-bibliographies.html

Instead the bibliography (and notes) has been published on OPU's Web site
http://www.oup-usa.org/sc/0195128427/index.html

    This phenomenon is quite interesting in itself, but perhaps
most interest is the fact that  the OCLC
record for this edition (OCLC 41165440) makes no mention of this fact nor does it include a hotlink to the Web bibliography!

   Any thoughts and/reactions to either would certainly make for some interesting pre-ALA chatter.

/Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University 
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu 

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