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Detail, glorious detail.

Publication: The Australian Library Journal
Publication Date: 01-AUG-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Detail, glorious detail.(Documentation: A History and Critique of Attribution, Commentary, Glosses, Marginalia, Notes, Bibliographies, Works-Cited Lists, and Citation Indexing and Analysis)(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Documentation: a history and critique of attribution, commentary, glosses, marginalia, notes, bibliographies, works-cited lists, and citation indexing and analysis. By Robert Hauptman. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2008. 240 pp. US$35.00 soft cover ISBN 9780786433339

Robert Hauptman offers a wide-ranging survey of the history and current uses of the various forms and systems of citation. His introductory chapter identifies six distinct purposes--'acknowledgement', 'attribution', 'tracing', validation', 'protection' and 'commentary'--although he notes that other models distinguish up...

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