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Permalink Reply by Munesh Kumar on December 10, 2015 at 23:15

Dear Sir,

Very good and practice problem.

Actually et. al. in manual cataloging was reliable where we used to make author entry card and other related different cards. By using them user and as well as library staff used to search the documents. Now we are not making the manual catalog. If we follow the same thing in automated system then we might miss the useful information from our searches or we may get the result as desired from database. So we need to fill the data of all possible authors. Even in maximum library software, we get the tag to add more author as this data type is repetitive. 

In second question, we need to consider the information for cataloging same as printed on title page and verso of title page, without changing them in any manner, partially or fully. So we need to pick the full information as you have given in example, "Tannan's Banking Law and Practice in India". 

This is my view. Kindly wait for few more views. 
Thank You. 

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Permalink Reply by Ashok Bhatt on December 11, 2015 at 0:22

Dear Sir,

As we are using Liberty software we enter the Authors Information as :

Statement of Responsibility:  S. R. Ranganathan ..[et al.]

and in Author Field we Enter All Authors Name followed by Sir Name First, Forename like Ranganathan, S. R. . So one can search by any authors Name.

 

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Permalink Reply by manohar V Gohane on December 11, 2015 at 16:06

Dear Mr Manjunath,
I am agreed to Mr. Munesh Kumar.I think in a title there is not required to enter ".……" . Because at the time of searching their will be a problems.
Moreover, many software have a provisions for added entries. If you have done main entry as 'Ranganathan S R',then you may do added entry as 'S R Ranganathan . in this case users may search titles both types.The same provision is in SLIM21 S/w.

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Permalink Reply by Ravithimmegowda on December 13, 2015 at 21:22

Really good thinking Mr.Manjunath,

I had also faced this problem while effective use of OPAC, It is very important, while uploading data to the software, even prefix article also creates problem while opac search, Hence we wanted to enter all authors for the user sake. otherwise our OPAC will be inactive, many users in academic library are start search with third or fourth author some time by name of publisher.

Ravi

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Permalink Reply by Manjunath K S on December 13, 2015 at 21:32

Thank you all for guiding to outcome from these doubts.

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Permalink Reply by shekhar kumar on December 22, 2015 at 18:47

Now dear good morning
I (Shekhar Kr.from Patna). Firstly which software you use, Mostly each library management software have to create additional entry about aouther, publisher,collbrater,etc. so check the process

thanks

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