Thursday, December 3, 2009

You say APA, I say Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

A while back, it occurred to me that it might be nice if it were possible to find the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association in our catalog by searching for "APA." I remembered that thought today while taking care of our little booklet of corrections to the 6th edition. I made a few changes (none of which I would ever dare do to the master records in WorldCat), and now the search that I thought would be nice is possible. And, because I can do nothing without creating more work for myself, I have to figure out if we really do still have a 1983 edition of this work, or if that record should have been deleted ages ago...

5 comments:

  1. We probably DID have a 1983 edition in the Stacks at one time (particularly given our lack of weeding) - I think it used to be pretty common to put superceded reference items into Stacks...

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  2. I think it still is common - or at least I know that there are some titles where, when Sharon adds the new editions, the older ones get changed to Stacks.

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  3. Well, I checked in the Stacks, in Reference, and at the desk, and I couldn't find the 1983 edition anywhere. We still had our holdings for it in WorldCat, so I took that off and deleted the bib record in our catalog (which had a call number only, no item record - suspicious in and of itself).

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  4. IMHO - there is NO way we need the 1983 version...probably some kid stole the wrong edition a while back. Thanks for taking the extra time to make it easy to find stuff and for doing all the follow up!

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  5. YEA! I nearly always forgot that using APA to look up the manual didn't work. But . . . Now it does. Thank you!

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