>It is not only a problem for manuscript catalogers, as Jackie Dooley
>pointed out, but for rare book catalogers. There is no way to distinguish
>by subject heading a pamphlet printed in 1645 on the Battle of Naseby and a
>1992 monograph on the Battle of Naseby.

For the first we find $xHistory$xSources helpful, standard or not.

Why isn't this discussion on autocat?

Mac

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