I forward this message along because it came to me as list owner by
mistake. I don't know why, yet.
> If I were to define the primary users of the library, I would call
> them "those people who are invited to discover and utilize the
> information we buy or license." Of course, different libraries,
> different groups--doctors, lawyers, undergrads, high-school
> students, crafters guilds, whatever--you get the idea.
> And if I were to define the 'catalog', it would be the mechanism
> that encompasses the Big List of stuff we buy or license. I would
> say the ILS is an interface to the catalog that lets library
> workers do business on the thing--add stuff, keep track of money,
> loan stuff. The [opac] is the thing that lets the users do their
> thing to the catalog--discover what we have and either access it
> right there, or get an address of where they might run get it.
>
> --
> Mike Lindsey
> Law Library
> UC Berkeley
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Eric Lease Morgan
University Libraries of Notre Dame
Received on Wed Jun 07 2006 - 10:11:53 EDT