re: #6:
http://www.thestranger.com/2004-06-10/feature3.html
>>> Sharon Foster <fostersm1_at_GMAIL.COM> 8/7/2007 7:03 PM >>>
I smiled at the first 5, but #6 made me laugh out loud.
On 8/7/07, Simon Spero <ses_at_unc.edu> wrote:
> On 8/7/07, Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_jhu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > A postscript: Or, what I should have remembered to add:
> >
> > "To save the time of the reader."
> >
> > 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
> (1/4)<http://www.ibiblio.org/fred2.0/wordpress/?p=6>
> <http://www.ibiblio.org/fred2.0/wordpress/?cat=3>
>
> 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
> super*uous.
> 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
> e*ective 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 Thu Aug 09 2007 - 12:13:38 EDT