[ILL-L] missing title

[Keith]

Arthur

 

Remember back to the days of 80 column punch cards?  Jam a cite onto one of
those.

 

Barb

 

Every now and again when Ebsco changes fields in a cite, a lot of libraries
have to adjust the OpenURL settings.

This happened to us about two weeks ago.  No title or volume field

 

 

Keith Palmateer <mailto:kpalmate at pcc.edu> 

ILL and Summit Coordinator

Portland Community College

17705 NW Springville Rd

Portland, OR 97229

 

503-614-7433

 

From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Robinson, Arthur 
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 11:23 AM
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
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
To: ill-l at webjunction.org
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)
One College Avenue
Box 3002
Grantham, PA 1702
(717) 691-6006 Ext. 7242
FAX: (717) 691-6042
bsyverts at messiah.edu


>>> "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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