PAYING FOR THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: THE ECBB

Abstract

HOW rich does one have to be to qualify as poor? This Irishism has to be asked at the outset because ECBB, as the work under review will no doubt become known officially, is bound to be popularly regarded as the poor library's ESTC. The reviewer, who happens to be in charge of one library with no prospects of paying a four‐figure sum for a reference tool, and to work on behalf of another library which will have to consider very carefully whether to spend such a sum on this single tool or or a larger number of alternative titles, is only too well aware of the reality of this question.

Citation

BARR, B. (1981), "PAYING FOR THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: THE ECBB", Library Review, Vol. 30 No. 4, pp. 229-232. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012729