On Apr 27, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> The problem needs to be attacked from all angles at once, with all
> of us
> cooperating. It is not sufficient to blame MARC for being bad, or to
> blame systems for not taking full advantage of MARC. We've got to
> do it
> all together. As I've said before, I firmly believe that the
> disciplines
> of cataloging, metadata, and systems design are converging into
> something that must be treated as one unified discipline, not
> segmented.
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Surely, individuals will still have expertise that can't span all of
> that, but nobody can wall themselves off completely from the other
> parts, and everybody's got to work together in a unified effort.
Hear, hear! I agree. Everybody has something to contribute. It is not
all about cataloging. It is not all about programming. It is not all
about information literacy. It is not all about services. It is not
all about collections. It is not an either/or. Instead it is a both/
and. We all have more in common than differences. Build on
everybody's strengths.
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Eric Lease Morgan
University Libraries of Notre Dame
Received on Fri Apr 27 2007 - 08:20:45 EDT