Tuesday, September 26, 2006, 2:29:43 PM, you wrote:
JR> But I don't agree with the words being used. Is this 'the catalog'
JR> dying, or is it just the catalog changing drastically?
Does it really matter?
JR> It matters
JR> because I feel like talking about the catalog dying discounts the work
JR> of current catalogers (and is perceived as threatening to them when we
JR> all need to be working together more).
I see your point, but is the work of the caterpillar discounted even
though it is invisible, and perhaps unknown, to the resulting
butterfly?
dan
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Received on Mon Oct 02 2006 - 23:44:49 EDT