On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 20:48, Kevin M Kidd <kiddk_at_bc.edu> wrote:
> I think you simplify the issue,
What, on a mailing-list on the internet? Never!
> but you are right to say that many librarians feel that
> there are no alternatives to specialized systems. This
> is the very reason that we need IT education that goes
> hand in hand with library education.
May I also go as far as to suggest that you get your IT education
*not* from library school?
> We need some understanding of the alternatives -
> indeed, some sense of the myriad possibilities current
> technology provides - among trained librarians...
There's tons of stuff you do at the library which the outside world
also do, including card-readers, inventory systems, shelf-life
systems, borrowing systems, fancy indexers and spiders, and on and on.
The biggest problem with really adopting outside "help" like this is
because when the libraries look for them, they look for systems that
support ;
* z39.50
* MARC
* Patron management system
* Stacks delivery systems
* and so on ...
Alex
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