On 8/7/07, Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_jhu.edu> wrote:
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> A postscript: Or, what I should have remembered to add:
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> "To save the time of the reader."
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> Not, "To force the user to spend extra time because we think it's of
> educational value, sort of like eating your vegetables."
>
> Ranganathan's laws of library science continue to impress me with their
> timeless relevance.
A perfect segue into a plug for my comments to the LC Working Group :)
Future of Bibliographic Control - Prologomena
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1. The purpose of cataloguing is to guide a reader to his book.
2. Any aspect of cataloguing that does not support this task is
superfluous.
3. Any aspect of cataloguing that inhibits this task is harmful.
4. A catalogue is a biologically enhanced information retrieval
system.
5. Readers are familiar with other information retrieval systems, and
will use the tools which, based on past experience, they believe to be most
effective for their needs.
6. A library may not injure a reader, or through inaction allow a
reader to come to harm.
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Received on Tue Aug 07 2007 - 16:16:08 EDT