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Ed Summers wrote: |As for Karen's question about the Internet Archive: it totally makes |sense to host the data up there. But, I had to sign a scary license |agreement from the UIUC Archives, which *almost* stopped me from even |releasing http://catalog.sanfordberman.org ... Madeline can say for |sure, but I'm fairly certain this license prevents putting the data up |for the public. The ultimate disservice to Sanford Berman IMHO. |/me sighs Same experience here. I responded directly to Karen: "See http://catalog.sanfordberman.org/ -- it refers to licensing from the Univ of Illinois Archives. When the data first became available a number of years ago, I obtained a copy, and I remember that you had to specify that you were obtaining the data for personal research purposes only and that the data could not be made publicly available (or something to that effect). Things may have changed since then, but I don't know for sure." Until such a time (if ever) that the Berman catalog is publicly released, maybe a substitute "public" version (not perfect, but maybe close) could be reconstructed by harvesting library catalogs that incorporated Sandy's headings and xrefs. Sort of how the Dead Sea Scrolls were reconstructed for "public access" by working backwards from a concordance back in the 1990s. The hard part is probably trying to find libraries which subscribed to Sandy's microform and print publications of new headings and actually incorporated them. Of course, we know that LC is *not* in that group! (Although some of his headings did eventually find their way into LCSH.) The first ALA conference I ever attended (in Chicago in 1978) had Sandy Berman on the floor and Lucia Rather from LC on the podium passionately arguing about LCSH terminology. It was my first introduction to Sandy (my thought: wow, is this what goes on at ALA?), and (from a distance) I followed his career ever since. I was later able to hear him speak at a local Illinois Library Association conference in 1989 about subject terminology and had an opportunity to personally speak with him afterwards. I very much favored (and have been influenced by) his subject headings and, even if I may not have assigned them or directly entered them into local library authority files, I certainly have tried to follow that spirit in creating cross references, so that access under such terminology is not lost. Harvey