On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Deb Bergeron wrote:
> At the risk of starting a flame war, there is the other looming
> question: do we need a catalog at all?
> Some libraries have experienced a decline in catalog usage, patrons
> choosing electronic databases over items available in the catalog.
Let's say you have a million items on the shelf, and I am looking for a
particular one of those items. I need a tool to find it, and today would
use a catalog. If there weren't a catalog, what would I do?
-- Brian
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Brian Harrington
Project MUSE
Johns Hopkins University Press
brian_at_jhu.edu
Received on Thu Sep 20 2007 - 10:20:46 EDT