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Have you considered that the cataloger copy and pasted this from a website and that the summary on the website differed somewhat from what is on the dust jacket or other location on the book? Paige From: "Ann Heinrichs" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2018 5:26:27 PM Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] Quotations Wow, Pete. That's quite a switcheroo from the more common sin of plagiarism ... to put quotes around a made-up narrative, as opposed to putting no quotes around a genuine narrative. I have never seen this phenomenon. One is called plagiarism. I wonder what the other one is called. "Putting words in someone's mouth"? On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Wilson, Pete < [ mailto:[log in to unmask] | [log in to unmask] ] > wrote: I am curious: Why do catalogers routinely rewrite descriptions like those found in jacket copy, but leave the result in quotations, as if they were quoting directly from the jacket? Maybe catalogers need training as journalists. Pete Wilson Vanderbilt University -- Ann Heinrichs Metadata/Cataloging Librarian The Paul Bechtold Library Catholic Theological Union 5401 S. Cornell Ave. Chicago, IL 60615 [ http://www.ctu.edu/library | http://www.ctu.edu/library ] [ mailto:[log in to unmask] | [log in to unmask] ]