> On 8/31/07, James Weinheimer <j.weinheimer_at_aur.edu> wrote:
> > The opposite case of CS ignoring the experience of library science is
just
> > as prevalent.
> and Alexander Johannesen responded
> Why? What has LIS got that the rest of the world could benefit from?
This is why I find your posts so infuriating. You have no idea where LIS
has come from, and as a consequence you have no idea where it is, yet you
are so impatient because LIS won't follow you where you think it ought to
go.
Study the development of cataloging principles from Panizzi onward some
time. You might learn something. Of course, you'd have to have an open
mind to derive any benefit.
I wish I had kept a copy of a description I read some years ago about one
company's troubles trying to sell classical music recordings on the
internet. It seems they had problems with the fact that nearly every
recording of many popular pieces had different titles. Piano concerto no.
5? Concerto for piano no. 5? Klavierkonzert Nr. 5? Piano concerto (etc.)
op. 73? Piano concerto(etc.) in Eb major? Emperor? So the whole article
moaned about how hard it was to reinvent the system of uniform titles LIS
figured out generations ago.
LIS is in the trouble it is in today largely because CS has taken a
know-it-all attitude and ignored the foundational principles of LIS.
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David Guion
Music Cataloger
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Jackson Library
320 College Ave.
Greensboro, NC 27412
(336) 334-5781
dmguion_at_uncg.edu
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Received on Tue Sep 04 2007 - 06:55:57 EDT