13 October 2005 @ 04:11 pm
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People who make up names for journals? Show some imagination for crying out loud! And hey - if there's already a journal out there with the name you want to use? Don't bloody well use it!

Just gave a library user the completely wrong information there about a journal called "Medicine" (try finding that on nothing but a keyword search on an academic library catalogue...). Turns out there's two journals caleld 'Medicine' - one in Baltimore, one in Oxford. We have access to the Baltimore one so I told this guy he'd get his article online. Turns out the article's printed in the Oxford journal.

Bloody publishers...
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[identity profile] emeraldswan.livejournal.com on October 13th, 2005 09:47 am (UTC)
OMG. Law books/magazines/journals/organizations are the exact same way. Have any idea how many 'Law Reviews' there are? Makes going to the library kinda insane some days.

How ya doing?
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on October 13th, 2005 10:21 am (UTC)
Heh! And you have no idea how many of those 'Law Reports' mysteriously go missing from our library! I used to have to purchase replacements - now there was a nightmare job - and one girl who reported a missing part to me was complaining about lax security.
I said "We do what we can, these are all security tagged..."
She interrupts "Oh the tags are really easy to take out."
I'm thinking, 'you know how to take the tags out, therefore you have done just that in the past and you have the cheek to complain about someone else nicking something?!'

*g* I'm doing good now - away from work! - but I'm getting this weird cold which is making half of my face hurt. It's like the aftermath of being at the dentists...

How're you?
[identity profile] emeraldswan.livejournal.com on October 13th, 2005 10:28 am (UTC)
I am good. Have written 4 fics for [livejournal.com profile] fanfic100, and one of them is quite lengthy.

Am sorry you're getting a cold . . . sucky. I'm still right there with you, though. I don't think I'm going to ever get over this whateverthehellitis.
[identity profile] velvetwhip.livejournal.com on October 13th, 2005 10:41 am (UTC)
Can I just say that I think your layout is swell?

Also, the Journal kerfuffle is NOT your fault! People DO need to to be more creative and circumspect about naming!


Gabrielle
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on October 14th, 2005 01:06 am (UTC)
Thanks Gabrielle!

And for the journal thing, you wouldn't believe the hassle caused - there's a European Commission journal called "Le Journal" - almost impossible to find on any library catalogue, causes so many problems and yet I can just imagine the executives sitting around congratulating themselves for coming up with a brilliant name!
[identity profile] velvetwhip.livejournal.com on October 14th, 2005 08:51 am (UTC)
You're welcome!

I have this vision of a bunch of stuffy guys in ties, vests, and bifocals sitting around chortling at their own cleverness in concocting the title "Le Journal" now, myself...


Gabrielle