Re: Shelving JAMA (4 messages) Ann Ercelawn 30 Nov 1995 14:49 UTC
4 messages: _____ 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 _____ 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 ______ 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. _____ 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