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Publication details [#45787]

Bade, David. 2007. Colorless green ideals in the language of bibliographic description: Making sense and nonsense in libraries. Language & Communication 27 (1) : 54–80.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

automaticity | description | library | linguistic competence

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper discusses how cataloguing in libraries, formerly performed by cataloguers from divergent academic backgrounds and with apt linguistic skills, is now often automated, outsourced to vendors, or done by persons that do not possesss the required abilities.