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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:10:19 -0500
From: Konstantin Gurevich <KGurevich@RCL.LIB.ROCHESTER.EDU>
Subject: Abbreviations as added entries?

    Dear all,
  Here's a message from a faculty member forwarded to me by our chemistry
librarian:

"One of my students was looking for an article in the Journal fur Praktische
Chemie yesterday under its standard abbreviation "J. Prakt. Chem." and
found that, according to Voyager [our local OPAC], we did not have it. Of
course, we do.  For students who don't know the full names of journal
(especially foreign ones), this presents a problem.  We should check to
make sure that commonly used journal abbreviations are recognized by
Voyager, whenever possible."

  My take is that we add abbreviations only if they appear on the
piece(s). At issue here is the abbreviations commonly used in
bibliographic citations. This does raise interesting access questions.
Anybody ever dealt with similar requests at their libraries?
                                      Happy Thanksgiving!

Konstantin Gurevich
Cataloger
Rush Rhees Library
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627-0055
Phone (716) 275-9452
E-mail: kgurevich@rcl.lib.rochester.edu