bibliographics
In grad school at the U of TN School of Information Sciences, I didn’t really enjoy coursework about cataloging. Just not a cataloger. 
But I do appreciate that the MARC cataloging format had a tremendous impact on libraries. I’m old enough to remember card catalogs. Younger folks probably do not. Anyway, Henriette Avram, the woman who coded/designed the MARC format passed away. You can read her obituary at the Washington Post.
- psychology researchers like Brown have begun to experiment with the phenomenon of unconscious plagiarism, which they call ”cryptomnesia”
- Library acquires archives of prominent literary magazine
- Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Judging a Book by Its Cover: Pavement Saw Press
Sometimes I feel compelled to search google for phrases or lines that I’ve written in the draft of a poem. Just to check for unconscious plagiarism. hahaha.
No, not really funny. 
The idea of unconscious plagiarism frightens me.
ADT responds:
Posted: May 2nd, 2006 at 10:10 am →
I think the term “unconscious plagiarism” is criminally loaded, but the concept seems a “no duh” revelation to me. To give it a Freudian slant always seems to lend a mysticism and is less forgiving of the brain as an organic and flexible organ.
Really, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with this, especially in poetry — of course, I’m no haughty academic or witch-hunt whistle-blower. If I “steal” chunks “unconsciously” from Li-Young Lee or Rilke, it’s an allusion to their grasp upon my psyche. I think it’s marvelous that a writer could so strongly have a grip on me that their poetry squeezes its way out of my pen without me even realizing.
I say don’t Google. Every slip like this could be and is an homage, as well as a wonderful trick of the crossed wires of our brains. Wonder at how impressive it is that the ghosts of all these words are fixed in our minds.
Anne responds:
Posted: May 2nd, 2006 at 7:38 pm →
I’m not not not a cataloger either (ohhhh, SO not one!), but thanks for the link to Avram’s obit — I hadn’t heard that she’d died.
Carl responds:
Posted: May 3rd, 2006 at 7:58 am →
I do the google thing, too.
I figure if it’s simple enough for me to come up with… somebody else must have done so first.