Ardena and lawlib,
Apologies in advance,
Your law review shouldn't use the original when you find it, as OCU's
may not. That's a high horse moral "shouldn't."
Whatever Blue Book demands, the purpose is for someone else to find the
cite. The author found it online. The reader of the footnote will find
it online (and would have unnessary hoops to find it otherwise). It's a
disservice to the reader (not to mention a waste of library resources)
for a law review to use a cite to an original newspaper when an online
source is available. An exception could be made for your local papers,
but that's a fading exception.
Even with an online WEXIS cite, if you find an official URL, demand that
law review use both WEXIS and the URL in order to give the reader a
sometimes free alternative. See:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000659276559150&rtmo=apXwNp8L&atmo=777lQFbt&pg=/et/97/11/8/thaadd08.html
(what a long URL, ;-) ) which didn't incur a WEXIS charge, (and note
that this versions date is the 8th). Newspapers sites are becoming
stable.
An added factor is that online headlines don't necessarily match the
hard copy headlines, which don't match themselves in early, sports
final, regional and weekly editons. Headlines are edition layout
specific, while the text remains the same. Citing to the hard copy
often hides the online version (and hardcopy or MF versions) that the
reader wants to use.
Feel free to forward this diatribe to your editors .
If the editors are too afraid of Harvard to change, then request that
Bobbie pull the plug on supplying unnecessary and unwise pinpoints.
John the Curmudgeon Perkins, awaiting counter view,
Library liason to the OCU Law Review who bends over backwards to dig up
material for cite checking, including a current 1200 footnoted article,
Law & Literature and The Bible by George Anastaplo. I'm happy to do the
work to get a Daily Telegraph when useful as I was willing to do the
work to get hard copy of the Chicago Jewish Star (not available online
or on OCLC), but insisted that LEXIS and www.jpost.co.il were more
appropriate for the Jerusalem Post than the hard copy weekly edition
used by the author.
Ardena L. Walsh wrote:
>
> We've been unssuccessful with many paper and m'film holders on OCLC and
> the publisher. We have a copy from online source, but need copy from
> paper or m'film for cite checking. Also need title, page number, and
> date copied.
>
> 11/5/97 Daily Telephraph (London) 19
> Charles Laurence Reports, "Not Nasty or Egocentric, but Ill: Are U.S.
> Psychiatrist Making Excuses for Indiscipline?"
>
> Can do ALA or OCLC request if you wish.
>
> Ardena L. Walsh
> Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery
> Thomas M. Cooley Law School Library
> PO Box 13038
> Lansing MI 48901
> phone (517) 371-5140 x626
> fax (517) 334-5709
> walshal@cooley.edu
-- John M. Perkins Oklahoma City University School of Law Library 405-557-6030, 405-521-5172 fax jperkins@lec.okcu.edu
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