It would search through a school’s syllabus site ...
I am not trying to "search" for auth-work pairs. Going through schools’ syllabi is a great idea. I thought there should be such a registry somewhere.
wikibase I didn't find intuitive and/or it was taking too much of my time.
I am trying to sweet talk wikipedia folks into releasing a copy of all the references on their pages and archive.org and books.google.com to provide "we the people" with a list of all the books they have cataloged.
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