Biblio-hell
First, there was the discovery that while I had assigned readings according to the page numbers of the 6th edition of a certain book, the bookstore had stocked and the students had bought the 7th edition. So I will spend tomorrow re-doing that syllabus.
Meanwhile, The Pomegranate's copyeditor emails me from England with the unwelcome news that one paper scheduled for the next issue lacked a bibliography--which is my fault for forgetting to tell the author that we needed one. So I had to slam one together from her footnotes this evening, checking some of her citations against the WorldCat database.
I so love that kind of work!
You would think with footnotes that a bibliography is unnecessary for a short paper, but the publisher wants them anyway. It has something to do with other databases of citations in various journals.
Meanwhile, The Pomegranate's copyeditor emails me from England with the unwelcome news that one paper scheduled for the next issue lacked a bibliography--which is my fault for forgetting to tell the author that we needed one. So I had to slam one together from her footnotes this evening, checking some of her citations against the WorldCat database.
I so love that kind of work!
You would think with footnotes that a bibliography is unnecessary for a short paper, but the publisher wants them anyway. It has something to do with other databases of citations in various journals.
posted by Chas S. Clifton at 9:19 PM Permalink
1 Comments:
You write, "while I had assigned readings according to the page numbers of the 6th edition of a certain book, the bookstore had stocked and the students had bought the 7th edition. So I will spend tomorrow re-doing that syllabus."
All I can say, brother, as I am readying my materials for the first day of teaching next week, is that I feel your pain... I feel your pain.
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