Volume 50, Number 9 · May 29, 2003
The Heresies of Bibliography
By Robert Darnton
Making Meaning: "Printers of the Mind" and Other Essays
by D.F. McKenzie, edited by Peter D. McDonald and Michael F. Suarez
S.J. University of Massachusetts Press, 286 pp., $24.95 (paper)
Books and Bibliography: Essays in Commemoration of Don McKenzie
edited by John Thomson
Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press, 216 pp., NZ$39.95 (paper)
Why is bibliography important? If it is to be more than a list of titles, what use is it? The question has acquired new pertinence now that texts have become both more available and less trustworthy, thanks to the Internet. Students usually download texts from computers without asking where they came from, and they frequently get garbage. But the problem is not new.
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