Oriental Flowering Cherries
Dec. 16th, 2004 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yrieithyddI've just discovered that my supervisor wrote a book 22 years before he was born!
I just decided to check the catalogue system to see if they had finally managed to Yr Hen Iaith* as something reminded me of it. For some reason I decided to search on author. I thus found that on Newton (for the Faculties and Departments A-E) there are three entries for Paul Russell:
Russell, Paul
Russell, Paul 1956-
Russell, Paul 1956 Feb. 23-.
the first two with three entries each and the second with two. Looking at them each in turn, I discovered that one of the entries for Russell, Paul was `Oriental Flowering Cherries' published in 1934! This amused me greatly. I knew that there were inconsistencies in the author records on Newton, but ... .
(and as for the book classification that the Fac Library uses: I've been trying to puzzle out what some of the distinctions are, particular between E156 and E157 both of which are Welsh literature, but it's not that one's poetry and the other prose or one is earlier than the other. This has been bugging me for a while and so I've noticed that it isn't consistent; there is one volume in a series which is E156 when all the others are E157. There are also duplicate copies of the same book under different class marks (Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch has recently appeared under E153 (manuscripts basically) but has for a long time had two copies in E157Mab (i.e. one of the Welsh lit marks, classified under `Mabinogion' -- the collection of tales which it contains). I suspect some of this is caused by not having an ASNC librarian as such!)
*A book edited by my supervisor which contains an article relevant to one part of my work; Paul had given my a photocopy of the relevant parts of the article, but I'd had to extrapolate approximate page numbers.
I just decided to check the catalogue system to see if they had finally managed to Yr Hen Iaith* as something reminded me of it. For some reason I decided to search on author. I thus found that on Newton (for the Faculties and Departments A-E) there are three entries for Paul Russell:
Russell, Paul
Russell, Paul 1956-
Russell, Paul 1956 Feb. 23-.
the first two with three entries each and the second with two. Looking at them each in turn, I discovered that one of the entries for Russell, Paul was `Oriental Flowering Cherries' published in 1934! This amused me greatly. I knew that there were inconsistencies in the author records on Newton, but ... .
(and as for the book classification that the Fac Library uses: I've been trying to puzzle out what some of the distinctions are, particular between E156 and E157 both of which are Welsh literature, but it's not that one's poetry and the other prose or one is earlier than the other. This has been bugging me for a while and so I've noticed that it isn't consistent; there is one volume in a series which is E156 when all the others are E157. There are also duplicate copies of the same book under different class marks (Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch has recently appeared under E153 (manuscripts basically) but has for a long time had two copies in E157Mab (i.e. one of the Welsh lit marks, classified under `Mabinogion' -- the collection of tales which it contains). I suspect some of this is caused by not having an ASNC librarian as such!)
*A book edited by my supervisor which contains an article relevant to one part of my work; Paul had given my a photocopy of the relevant parts of the article, but I'd had to extrapolate approximate page numbers.
