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Perhaps when new students to the GSLIS are welcomed, they should be informed that they are going on a rigorous language program. Read the following quotes and I think you will agree. In the book "ABC For Book Collectors 8^th ed." John Carter proclaims,"Every specialised profession or pursuit develops its own jargon, much of which is unintelligible to the layman. How many general readers can give the meaning of nisi prius, bareboat charter, baton cut, piecrust border, forced rouge, deleted vocals, an equated A6, slightly ullaged or high-factor backward paragraph loops; Book collecting is no exception"(2010, 11). In the publication Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Machine-Readable Cataloging, Betty Furrie notes, "After even a short exposure to the MARC21 format, it is not unusual to hear librarians speaking in 'MARCese' "(2009, 6). And finally in discussing MeSH it is noted by M. Swanson that, "Medical information has been drawn from such a wide span of time and such a diversity of specialized fields that its doctrines belong to several different systems and its language problem is almost as bad as that of India. There is at least one major language for each major department, and each of these has several dialects"(1959). Hopefully, the many papers I have included will demonstrate a respect and budding knowledge in the many languages that are part of the library world, from legal, medical, and bibliographic description fields.

Bibliography

Carter, John and Nicholas Barker. 2010. ABC for book collectors. 8th ed. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press.

Furrie, Betty and Data Base Development Department of the Follett Software Company. 2009. Understanding MARC bibliographic: machine-readable cataloging. Online. http://www.loc.gov/marc/umb/.

Swanson, M. 1959. J Bowman Gray Sch Med. Cited in: U.S. National Library of Medicine. Medical Subject Headings Preface. 2011. Online. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/intro_preface.html#pref_hist.