Really bad and obvious spellign msitakes in library catalogues

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Just looked up Marshall McLuhan on the cat for the uni where I work, and apparently he wrote a book called "The medium is the massage." There are two editions, both with the same mistake.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, that's coz when you are cataloguing you often just duplicate the record if there is already an existing copy.

Whoever put that one in, obviously had their mind on something else.

As someone who has added the details of about 1500+ books to a catalogue, I can totally sympathise with typing errors and the complete lack of energy/will to check for spelling mistakes.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Nick, there is a McLuhan book called "The Medium Is The Massage", not sure whether it is an remixed version of "the Medium Is The Message" or a re-think / update.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Aye, jsut seen that Tim, cos I sent a trainee over to see the cataloguer who'd done it. I a stand contrite!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I wonder whether there is a market for a combined clairvoyant / massueur (or masseuese) service, though?

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember finding a book called "Secrets of the Rabbi" on the shelves of an Irish university library. I thought it would be some insane anti-semitic rant, but actually some wag had just painted out the T at the end of the title, and the book was a zoology textbook.

er, that's a library anecdote, not a cataloguing one. sorry.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd hope so.

"Your next back spasm is going to be just great..."

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

The Medium is the Massage is a kind of reader's digest version of ...the Message (and other bits of MM's thoughts) with lots of pretty cool 1960s op-art graphics in it by Quentin Fiore. I remember having my mind slightly blown by it when I borrowed it from Letchworth College Library in 1987.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

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Really bad and obvious spellign msitakes in library catalogues - Classic or Dud?