"Now, the only problem with these approaches is that whole, if I don't know it's out there, I'll never know I can buy it. Much is (or used to be) discovered merely by browsing, but increasingly with stores only carrying the "guaranteed sellers", the *good stuff* simply isn't stocked anymore."
And, thus we may find the development, at long last, of the sort of "bibliographic" apparatus that was developed in the late 19th century for books: Publishers Weekly started listing every book published in the US, beginning in 1873; Books in Print started 1947 iirc, and the "US Catalog" in the 1890s. There have been efforts by the library community to produce similar things for microfilm, films, TV programs, etc. for some time, maybe this development will encourage support for a complete, accurate, and comprehensive listing of all recorded (or at least DVD) video/films. Curiously, the industry doesn't seem all that interested in such a thing.
On the other issue, more and more, too many public libraries are also carrying only the "most popular" books, magazines, DVDs, CDs, etc. using the same principles as businesses do.
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Date: 2009-04-21 04:26 pm (UTC)And, thus we may find the development, at long last, of the sort of "bibliographic" apparatus that was developed in the late 19th century for books: Publishers Weekly started listing every book published in the US, beginning in 1873; Books in Print started 1947 iirc, and the "US Catalog" in the 1890s. There have been efforts by the library community to produce similar things for microfilm, films, TV programs, etc. for some time, maybe this development will encourage support for a complete, accurate, and comprehensive listing of all recorded (or at least DVD) video/films. Curiously, the industry doesn't seem all that interested in such a thing.
On the other issue, more and more, too many public libraries are also carrying only the "most popular" books, magazines, DVDs, CDs, etc. using the same principles as businesses do.