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"Compiling Bibliography" explores strategies and resources for compiling a bibliography of an author's works, using as an example the author Douglas Sladen, whose works "Oriental Cairo" and "Queer Things about Egypt" are included in the online Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA). We discuss using WorldCat and the online database for the Times of London Archives, and provide some useful hints for managing your research. This is part three of a nine-part course that uses Sladen's work for a case study on performing historical research.

What can an author's bibliography tell us about him or her and the particular work we are researching?

If you are working on a research project such as an investigation of Douglas Sladen, author of Oriental Cairo: City of the Arabian Nights , knowing more about what he has written can enable us to understand his background, interests, possible biases, and expertise. In our previousmodule on Sladen, whose work is included in the Travelers in the Middle East Archive , we examined how to research biography . Now we turn to the process of building a bibliography, which can include not only books but alsopersonal letters, reviews of other books or responses to reviews of his or her work, later or earlier editions of the work you are researching, etc. We will examine the process oflocating everything by a particular author to demonstrate the variety of information such a search can produce. For some major authors such as Shakespeare, scholars have already prepared extensivebibliographies listing not only works by the author but about him or her. We might also have luck using a reference work such as The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature or Dictionary of Literary Biography, which lists authors' major works. The Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue will also contain a listing of all works published in Britain, its colonies and the US from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of World War I. However, let's do our own research to determine what Sladen has written. In our previous research into his biography, we learned that Sladen wrote over 60 books; let's find out what they are.

Confirming the identity of your author

First, we have to make sure that we have enough information to identify one Douglas Sladen from another. For that we willgo to [link] WorldCat, an online catalog that searches the holdings of thousands of libraries. If you are unfamiliar with the WorldCat, visit our WorldCat module.

In order to make sure that the information we gather is for the author of "Oriental Cairo" and not another author with the same name, we should perform a search forthe book by entering its title, logically enough, into the title field.
Once you have found "Oriental Cairo," take a note of the full name, birth and death dates of Douglas Sladen. It will not always be productive to enter all of thisinformation when we are searching for his works--he may be listed only be first and last name--but it will enable us to differentiate him from other Douglas Sladens.

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