[ILL-L] missing title

Wed Oct 7 16:33:32 EDT 2009

Arthur,

      I work with chemists and that is the way the literature was cited then. Sometimes it is hard to track down the title. We are fortunate enough to have Chemical Abstracts here going way back and that helps.

Regards,

Ethel

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From: Robinson, Arthur [mailto:arobinson at lagrange.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 2:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [ILL-L] missing title

I take it this is a computer issue, not a citation issue?  I occasionally have faculty come in with citations from scholarly journals in fields like Chemistry that omit the article title.  I had one recently that read something like

Lingane, J.  (1945).  Ind. eng. ch. 17:640.

That's how it was cited in the journal--no article title, which would probably have enabled me to find it easily in JSTOR or even by Googling.  I eventually tracked down the title, but it took a while.  Does anyone know why some citation formats deliberately omit the article title?  Do they assume that scholars have these on their shelves and only need the year and page number (and know what Ind. eng. ch. stands for)?

Ignore me.  I'm just venting again.  (In fact I once worked in a field that assumed that everyone knew what LCM, YCS, HSCP, and ANRW stood for.  Our citations must have made life miserable for librarians, especially in those pre-Internet days.)

Arthur Robinson (GLG)

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Barbara Syvertson
Sent: Wed 10/7/2009 1:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [ILL-L] missing title

I haven't had that problem. Bummer. That creates a lot of extra work.
Barb

Barb Syvertson
Interlibrary Loan Technician
Messiah College Library (PGM)
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Box 3002
Grantham, PA 1702
(717) 691-6006 Ext. 7242
FAX: (717) 691-6042
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>>> "Diane Wiedemann" <Dlwiedem at hacc.edu> 10/7/2009 8:19 AM >>>
I'm curious to see if anybody else has had this problem.  Over the past week, I've received several requests form other libraries that appear to have been taken from an FirstSearch record but the title is missing.  The author and publisher and all the other information are there, just the title is missing.  Am I the only one experiencing this?

Diane Wiedemann
Library Central Services
Document Delivery Specialist
HACC Central Pennsylvania's Community College
One HACC Dr.
Harrisburg, PA 17110
717-780-2623
OCLC - HAC

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