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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 08:51:41 -0500
From: Gregory Szczyrbak <gszczyrb@MARAUDER.MILLERSV.EDU>
Subject: Re: Shelving JAMA (Meg Matthes)

We shelve JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) under JAMA
for the same reason - its OCLC 245 field.  As far as I know, our patrons
seem to find it successfully.

Gregory Szczyrbak
Millersville University
Ganser Library - Periodicals
Millersville, PA 17603
gszczyrb@marauder.millersv.edu

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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 18:49:06 -0500
From: Barbara Eastland <eastland@MAX.MUHLBERG.EDU>
Subject: Re: Shelving JAMA (Meg Matthes)

Hi Meg-
        We shelve as JAMA as you do.  Our printed holdings list has a
couple of cross references for the user who isn't sure what the title is:
American Medical Assn., see... and Jrnl. of the American Medical Assn,
see....  Our reference librarians have no problem with this and
apparently neither do the patrons.  The patron's biggest difficulty seems
to be in determining the difference between microfiche and microfilm!
(Our holdings are microfiche.)

Barb Eastland, serials          eastland@max.muhlberg.edu
Muhlenberg College

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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 19:01:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Marie Respass <mrespass@GEORGIAN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Shelving JAMA (Meg Matthes)

          We shelve everything according the the 245 field.  Our
          patrons use our union list printout to check our holdings.
          Therefore, we have the location on the shelves correspond to
          the listing.  Whenever we find a title that might cause
          confusion we cross reference as you have done.

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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 08:58:27 GMT-5
From: "Kimberly J. Laird" <LAIRDK@MEDSERV.EAST-TENN-ST.EDU>
Subject: JAMA & journal mutilation

    In this library, it was chosen to ignore the "might be a
title change" of Journal of the American Med. Association to
JAMA. So, all of our JAMAs are bound with the full title & are
shelved under the full title.

    Our OPAC has a note indicating where JAMA is kept & we have
dummies on the shelf to point people to the right place.
Incidentally, we also have a dummy for Journal of American
Medical Association, so that people who're forgetting the 'the'
will be directed to the right place.

    I wonder how many of you shelf journals according to each
word/letter in the title <except for leading articles>?

    Glad to know that we are not the only library experiencing
journal mutilation problems. There's no obvious connection
between the titles being damaged, except that much of the damage
appears to have occured before our medical students came back to
school this fall. <sigh>

    Has anyone mentioned the November 1995 issue of C&RL? on
page 497, there is an extensive discussion of the mutilation of
journals at a large university library. That's volume 56, no.6

Kimberly J. Laird
Technical Services Librarian//Quillen College of Medicine
East Tennessee State University
Lairdk@medserv.east-tenn-st.edu