The perfect bibliographic record: Platonic ideal, rhetorical strategy or nonsense?

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 109-133

  Bade, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cataloging standards; Database quality; Metadata quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449184114     PISSN: 01639374     EISSN: 15444554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01639370802183081     Document Type: Article

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