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EDNOTE. COULD SOME OF YOU LIBRARY PEOPLE OUT THERE HELP ON THIS VIA NABOKV-L.
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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:56:19 +0800
From: Hui-Chen Hsieh <hchsieh@mail.wtuc.edu.tw>
As a librarian in Taiwan, I am writing this message to seek for your advice
whether to classify Nobokov's works in Russian Literature or American
Literature. To make my library's collection of Nabokov's works consistent in
terms of classification and collocation, I need an advice from a literature
scholoar. Luckily, from the internet search I learn that you are a former
president of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society and is now the
moderator of NABOKV-L.
I look up the Dictionary of Literary Biography and learn that Vladimir
Nabokov is identified as an American writer. However, after several searches
in library catalogs such as in Melvyl (catalog of UC libraries) and OhioLINK,
I become confused because Nabokov's works have been classified under both
Russian literature and American literature.
Would you please give me your advice?
I'd appreciate your time and patience reading this message!
Sincerely,
Hui-Chen Hsieh (Ms)
Cataloging Librarian
Library, Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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----- Forwarded message from hchsieh@mail.wtuc.edu.tw -----
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:56:19 +0800
From: Hui-Chen Hsieh <hchsieh@mail.wtuc.edu.tw>
As a librarian in Taiwan, I am writing this message to seek for your advice
whether to classify Nobokov's works in Russian Literature or American
Literature. To make my library's collection of Nabokov's works consistent in
terms of classification and collocation, I need an advice from a literature
scholoar. Luckily, from the internet search I learn that you are a former
president of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society and is now the
moderator of NABOKV-L.
I look up the Dictionary of Literary Biography and learn that Vladimir
Nabokov is identified as an American writer. However, after several searches
in library catalogs such as in Melvyl (catalog of UC libraries) and OhioLINK,
I become confused because Nabokov's works have been classified under both
Russian literature and American literature.
Would you please give me your advice?
I'd appreciate your time and patience reading this message!
Sincerely,
Hui-Chen Hsieh (Ms)
Cataloging Librarian
Library, Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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