"There is no required textbook for this class; I will post electronic copies of relevant papers to this web site as the course progresses. Meanwhile, here is a list of background references, primarily surveys and textbooks. Key references for the course are hilighted. Many of the other references focus on material that we will not cover at all in the course; I include them primarily to give some sense of the diversity of the field."

"Based on an article originally published in Technicalities (v. 25, no. 5, Sept./Oct. 2003), this pamphlet provides a brief overview of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) as developed by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). Using full-color graphics, What is FRBR? outlines the background of the development of the Functional Requirements, the concepts involved and their potential impact on cataloging rules, bibliographic structures and systems design for cataloging applications."

"When citing Magic 8-Balls:..."

"What they showed was that faculty with earlier surname initials were disproportionately positively represented among tenured faculty at top ten economics departments..."

via Garrett Scott, Bookseller

Matthew Berryman is citing some of what we should see.

This may or may not be true each discipline; depends on their folkways.

Musing about the relative focus of self-attention in different academic fields