3 messages:
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Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:55:05 -0500
From: David Goodman <dgoodman@PHOENIX.PRINCETON.EDU>
Subject: Re: Abbreviations as added entries? (Konstantin Gurevich)
As a public services person, I personally have wanted these for many years
for the benefit of the users. There is much more
standardization than in the past; for example, all chemistry journals use
the ACS abbreviations and all biomedical journals the ones from Medline.
It would seem perfectly feasible to include these in the record, just as
the Indexing and Abstracting services are included (and it would be much
more useful than those are).
I invite the comments of the catalogers on this list. Feel perfectly free
to send any outraged curses at the resulting increase in workload to me
personally, but please don't send them to the list.
Dr. David Goodman, Princeton University Biology Library
dgoodman@princeton.edu 609-258-3235
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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
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Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 21:37:36 -0800
From: Mitch Turitz <turitz@SFSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Abbreviations as added entries?
Konstantin:
Technically, journal title abbreviations should appear in the 210
field, based on the key title (222) field.
(from Library of Congress's MARC web page):
===========================
210 - ABBREVIATED TITLE (R)
Abbreviations of the nouns and adjectives in the Key Title (field
222) that are determined by national centers under the auspices of
the International Serials Data System in accordance with IS0 4,
Documentation Rules for the Abbreviation of Title Words and Titles of
Publications and List of Serial Title Word
Abbreviations. (The abbreviated title is an agency-assigned data element.)
===========================
Please note: The above does NOT indicate that the abbreviation has
to be on the journal itself. In fact, the above standard which sets
the rules for journal title abbreviation is a standard, but the
publisher can put whatever he/she wants on the journal (similar to
the problems we have with getting them to put the correct ISSN on
journals).
Additionally, the INDEX PUBLISHERS themselves may make up their own
abbreviations and may vary greatly between different publishers of
periodical article indexes.
In my humble opinion, ALL known title abbreviations should be put
into the 210 field (it's repeatable so you can have multiple ones)
and your system should be customized, if necessary, to index that
field as either title browse, title keyword or both. By known, I
mean that if you know that is an abbreviation for the title in hand
because it either appears on the piece, or you have the abbreviation
explained in an index you readily have available to you from your
desk (I would not recommend that you have to leave the department to
look up every abbreviation for every title you are cataloging). Just
my opinion.
-- Mitch Turitz, Serials Librarian
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Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:36:23 -0500
From: David Van Hoy <dcvh@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Abbreviations as added entries?
>... At University of Western Ontario (UWO),London, Ont., Canada, we
>have very often accommodated these kind of requests by adding variant
>titles as 246 13 or 246 1blank |iCited as:|a; Known as:|a
>or whatever the most appropriate phrase would be depending on the case.
>...
There are two other possible approaches here. First, it may be
appropriate to add to the record for the most recent title change
(sn99-23032) a 246 17 matching the 246 17 on the record for the
previous title (sn92-34763).
Second, the 210 field in MARC 21 can now be utilized for abbreviated
titles other than the abbreviated key title. Second indicator 0
(zero) designates an abbreviated title assigned by an entity other
than an ISSN center (e.g. a publisher). If your system, like my
library's system, is set to index the MARC 210 in its title index(es)
you're all set.
David Van Hoy, Principal
Serials Cataloger "The times, they are a-changin';
MIT Libraries somethin's blowin' in the wind."
dcvh@mit. -- Edna Turnblad ("Hairspray")
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