Friday, August 20, 2010

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".

Saturday, May 15, 2010

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.

Friday, April 30, 2010

Relationship type

Exemplas

Page

number

Equivalency

synonymy

Strategic Defense Initiative / SDI

Food-Microbiology / Food-Bacteriology

Stories without words / Non word stories

117

301

704

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