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Searcher, July, 2001 by McDermott, Irene E.
I'm thinking back to when I started in this biz, way back in 1986. I was trying to be an actress then, and, to support myself, I took a research editor job at Salem Press in Pasadena. My assignment? To take manuscripts to the library and verify the accuracy of all the publishing dates mentioned, particularly in the bibliographies. How did I check my data? I scoured the tiny print of the National Union Catalog and the several latest volumes of R.R. Bowker's Books In Print.
Within 6 weeks, the strain from reading all that small type led me to my first pair of glasses.
But that is beside the point. Books In Print, when I began, was the standard, the tool of choice for librarians, booksellers, customers (and researchers!) to identify books currently...
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