Leave letter

I received the following email from on of my friends. I liked it.

See , how people write leave Applications.

It's murder of English language. But Too Funny.

Just Read It.
The Leave Applications;)

Infosys , Bangalore : An employee applied for leave as follows:

"Since I have to go to my village to sell my land along with my wife , please sanction me one-week leave."

This is from Oracle Bangalore: >From an employee who was performing the "mundan" ceremony of his 10 year old son:

"as I want to shave my son's head , please leave me for two days.."

Another gem from CDAC. Leave-letter from an employee who was performing his daughter's wedding:

"as I am marrying my daughter , please grant a week's leave.."

From H.A.L. Administration Dept:

"As my mother-in-law has expired and I am only one responsible for it , please grant me 10 days leave."

Another employee applied for half day leave as follows:

"Since I've to go to the cremation ground at 10 o-clock and I may not return , please grant me half day casual leave"

An incident of a leave letter:

"I am suffering from fever , please declare one-day holiday."

A leave letter to the headmaster:

"As I am studying in this school I am suffering from headache. I request you to leave me today"

Another leave letter written to the headmaster:

"As my headache is paining , please grant me leave for the day."

Covering note:

"I am enclosed herewith..."

Another one:

"Dear Sir: with reference to the above , please refer to my below..."

Actual letter written for application of leave:

"My wife is suffering from sickness and as I am her only husband at home I may be granted leave".

Letter writing:-

"I am well here and hope you are also in the same well."

A candidate's job application:

"This has reference to your advertisement calling for a ' Typist and an Accountant - Male or Female'... As I am both(!! )for the past several years and I can handle both with good experience , I am applying for the post.

Dublin Core - Critic

An interesting post on some of the limitations of Dublin Core. Read this article.
Do not miss to read the comments, particularly from Andy Powell.

Are librarians obsolete?

Recently I came across to read the following interesting article. Hurray! We, the librarians, have some good news to cherish.

Are librarians obsolete?

Title with Author's Name

Ashwini asked this question over email:
The title of the book is "Howkins & Bourne Shaw's textbook of gynaecology". Full title we have to enter in the title statement or only textbook of gynaecology.

After a bit of searching in AARCR2R, I answered like this:
Good question.
I will quote AACR2R rule 1.1B2. "If the title proper includes a statement of responsibility or the name of a publisher, distributor, etc., and the statement or name is an integral part of the title proper (i.e., connected by a case ending or other grammatical construction), transcribe it as part of the title proper"

Going by the above rule the title of the book should be recorded/written as "Howkins & Bourne Shaw's textbook of gynaecology".

Think of an analogy: "Dewey Decimal Classification" where Dewey is the name of the author. We record the title as "Dewey Decimal Classification".

Refresher Course

I am in Dharwad in a Refresher Course.

Farewell for students

Today, the juniors arranged a farewell party to their seniors. Students had come with a special attire which gave a ceremonial look at the Department. With feelings and emotions the students expressed their experiences during their stay in the Department. It was really nice to hear and amazed to see their observations about the teachers. I had an opportunity to speak. In my talk I concentrated on life long learning attitude that needs to be developed by one and all.

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Equivalency
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Near synonymy	Aquatic birds / water birds Aquatic plants / Freshwater plants Aquatic sports/ water sports.	46 46 46
Lexical variants	Anaesthetics / Anesthetics Archaeology / Archeology	33 47
Hierarchy
Generic or TSA	Desert animals /camels Desert plants / cactus Mammals / cats	203 211 445
Instance or ISA	Plat /Gold plate Pollution / water pollution Power / water power	570 578 582
Whole/ part	Houses / Rooms Plants / Leaves Plants / Flowers	363 568 568
Associative
Cause / Effect	Smoking / Lung cancer Poverty / Social problems Poverty / Homelessness Earth quakes / Tsunamis	441 582 582 234
Process / Agent	Thermometers / Heat Earthquakes / Seismography	737 234
Action / product	Agriculture / Farms Industrialization / Developing countries space industrialization Industrialization / Industrial revolution modernization	19 382 382
Action / property	Smoking / Asthma Education / civilization	441 239
Action / Target	Poultry / Birds	582
Concept or object / Origins	Petroleum industry / oil wells	556
Raw material /product	Sugar substitutes / artificial sweeteners Sugar / Syrups Cocoa / chocolate	711 711 154
Discipline of field / object or practitioner	Geriatrics / Elderly – diseases Gynecology / women – diseases Petrology / minerals	324 340 556