John Dillon wrote:
> Though I don't follow these discussions closely enough... it seems to
> me, especially in the light of a list of functionalities given by Eric
> below, that "catalog" is mostly a hopelessly old, static, and
> unhelpfully ambiguous term. It basically seems not up to the job. If
> the goal is to have a noun or name that does justice to what current
> library electronic resources can and do deliver, then my sense is
> "catalog" ought to be jettisoned forever.
>
It is not for the first time that this subject has come up, on other
lists at least. In fact, it must be quite a few years ago it first
came along. Up until now, without a result or even the semblance of a
consensus.
B.Eversberg
Received on Thu Mar 13 2008 - 10:27:44 EDT