Re: "Third Order"--was Libraries & the Web

From: Ted P Gemberling <tgemberl_at_nyob> Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 15:07:25 -0500 To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu

Allen, basically just because we've got enough work handling the
controlled vocabulary and our other tasks. But I'll look at those
LibraryThing posts. Maybe that will change my mind somehow.

Of course there is non-controlled vocabulary on cataloging records
(transcriptional fields), too, and I wasn't implying giving that up.
        --Ted G.

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Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] "Third Order"--was Libraries & the Web

Ted Gemberling writes:

"non-controlled vocabulary shouldn't, at the very least, be something
catalogers or other library staff have to deal with on a daily basis"

I'm curious about this statement - why not?

Allen Mullen
Eugene Public Library