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From: "Eric Lease Morgan" <emorgan_at_ND.EDU>
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Received: 3/19/2007 8:32:15 AM
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] what is in this "next generation" library catalog thing?
>IMHO, collections without services are useless, and services without
>collections are empty. A library needs both collections AND services
>in order to practice librarianship.
I don't think anyone would disagree with you, but the question was about the Next Generation CATALOG, not about Next Generation SERVICES. Yes, the catalog is one of the services, but certainly not the only one.
>A few years ago there was an Internet mantra, "Content is king."
>These days it seem to be more like, "Context is king", but I believe
>it is really a combination of the two. Content and context.
>Collections and services. Great libraries will provide both.
Yes, they will.
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Dan Lester, Boise, Idaho, USA
Received on Mon Mar 19 2007 - 13:01:37 EDT