... Yes, that would be best. ... A web search suggests (and I say 'suggests' deliberately) that it also appears in Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress',...
Folks, I just stumbled across the secret to organizing several "identities" on Yahoo. If any of you are having problems with multiple accounts that you'd like...
You're right, Owen. Since the only three places that "ecchoing" shows up in OhioLINK all are deliberate, it makes sense to remove it from the list. Tina...
AUTOCAT has been having a lively discussion on the subject of whether or not authority control works. One message asserted that key word searching was so...
Arlene Taylor at the University of Pittsburgh is doing research on that very subject. Her preliminary results indicate that 30% of the time, key words being...
Barbara Bristow
bbristow@...
Feb 8, 2002 1:08 pm
1278
I have a few strong opinions about this one, and research to back it up. The LC Subject headings are a powerful and useful tool, but the syntax is so tied to...
Ballard, Terry Prof.
terry.ballard@...
Feb 8, 2002 2:05 pm
1279
... Gosh, and here I am worrying about such minor problems as why you can't search "bi-polar" and find Patty Duke's _Call me Anna_. Phalbe...
... Well, we can't keep people from inputting typos in searches, but we're doing our best to cut down on the typos in the records. A properly-spelled keyword...
... Looks good! I like having the Spelling Bee graphic at the top. BTW, the Bookmark for MoreTypos has also been updated so it takes you directly to the...
The web dictionaries that I usually check use the American spellings of words that sometimes have different British spellings. Does anyone have an URL to...
After reading a fascinating article about the Dvorak keyboard (see http://slate.msn.com/?id=2061547), I then received an urelated email that contained the word...
Thanks, Owen! From the tests I've done so far, http://www.xrefer.com/ is just what I was looking for. Searching without specifying a topic yields too many...
... Hmmmmmmm, I just tried this, Terry. I searched "civil war" and got this: Entries 743 Found My beef with searches is not so much the sometimes arcane LCSH,...
Phalbe, Yes, but the hundreds of records retrieved were, by and large, books about the Civil War. We recommend that users take that search, find a book that...
Ballard, Terry Prof.
terry.ballard@...
Feb 18, 2002 8:05 pm
1289
Powhaten This typo appears in abstracts of two books -- _The weirdo_, by Taylor, and _Native American Culture : Past, present, and future_, by Ruff. However, ...
Phalbe Henriksen
bradford@...
Feb 19, 2002 4:12 pm
1290
OMG! I don't even want to report how many Jane Austin records I can find! I guess my list is overdue for this update. Phalbe...
... I got 16 hits in OhioLINK for "Jane Austin". 12 of them need correction(s), 4 didn't. Is 75 per cent a sufficient score to put the phrase on the MainList? ...
LibTypos MainList-Update 2002/03 New entries since 2002/01 update This edition has 63 terms in the A Section, 471 terms in the B Section, 418 terms in the C...
I may have mentioned this to the group before, but one of my favorite typos is FLOURIDE (or flourine, flouridation, etc.). This becomes a rather significant...
... Certainly there must be many more examples of this reversal of letters (UO - OU) in other parts of other records. I could only find these three on the...
I wasn't so much referring to other words with an o-u or a u-o as I was to the occurrence of flouri+ appearing in places in bibliographic records other than...
Thanks, as usual, to Tina, we have a fresh new list for the world to see. In addition to the usual, I added a link to a separate file of only the words added...
Ballard, Terry Prof.
terry.ballard@...
Mar 7, 2002 8:28 pm
1298
... According to the MainList note, at the time "Flouri+" was added, it got 22 hits in OhioLink. ... I've read testimonials from people who really liked...
Thanks, Tina. I agree that "switching" between QWERTY and Dvorak would be confusing. That's my biggest fear, actually, that as I gain Dvorak skills, I will...
... Interesting presentation of the new words, Terry. http://faculty.quinnipiac.edu/libraries/tballard/newerrors.html Methinks the three-column-format I used...
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