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Respected Professionals,
I have some doubts regarding cataloguing please guide me on the same.
1. When we are entering the books bibliographic data in the Library software if the the authors are more than three we will write et al we all know about that we won't enter all the authors name (we won't mention, i don't know others are doing same or not) but some time what happens users can't know the first author name they knows second or third or fourth etc. name if we search in the database it won't shows the name, in this case what we should do? we should enter all the names or what?
2. The second one is some books title is like this "Tannan's Banking Law and Practice in India" by M L Tannan like this it appears in this case we have to start with Tannan's banking or we can start with Banking Law and practice.
Please let me know regarding the above.
Thanking you in anticipation.
Manjunath K S
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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.
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.
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
Thank you all for guiding to outcome from these doubts.
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