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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]>
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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 <[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



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Ann Heinrichs
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The Paul Bechtold Library
Catholic Theological Union
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