[ILL-L] MLA & EBSCO

[Robyn Goldstein]

At 11:02 AM -0400 4/2/08, Robinson, Arthur  wrote:
>From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Andrew Shuping
>Sent: Wed 4/2/2008 8:58 AM
>To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
>Subject: Re: [ILL-L] MLA & EBSCO
>
>>Perhaps the database vendors could make it prominent that the 
>>article is international.  I know the >>problem that my patrons 
>>have (and staff as well) is the MLA and EBSCO translate the 
>>information >>into English.  Maybe bold flashing neon colors that 
>>would quickly let us know that yes indeed, >>this is a 
>>international publication and not just run of the mill easily 
>>accessible English title.

>This an excellent idea.  Here's my revision of a typical MLA citation:
>Title: [The Taming of the Shrew: A Reading as a Text of Comedy]
>Author(s):  Kong, Sung-Uk 
><javascript:__doLinkPostBack('detail',>'ss%257E%257EAU%2520%252522Kong%25252c%2520Sung%252DUk%252522%257C%257>Csl%257E%257Erl','');> 
>
>Source:  Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 
><javascript:__doLinkPostBack('detail','>ss%257E%257EJN%2520%252522Medieval%2520and%2520Early%2520Modern%2520English>%2520Studies%252522%257C%257Csl%257E%257Erl','');> 
>(MES) 2007 Aug; 15 (2): 419-41.
>Notes:  In Korean
>THIS ARTICLE IS NOT IN ENGLISH!!!!!!!!!

>Unfortunately we do this sort of thing with our book bands (DO NOT 
>REMOVE BOOK BAND!!!!) and it doesn't work.

I've recently had to work on educating some of my users that when 
they see a title in brackets (i.e. [title of article]) that it means 
that it's not in English.  I know it's hard enough to get end-users 
to read training materials, but maybe putting up a note about the 
brackets will get through their heads even more.  It's easy to not 
look down & see that the Notes say, but it's hard to miss those 
brackets around the article title.

Take care,

Robyn

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Ms. Robyn Goldstein
Rush Department
OCLC:  LUP

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