I'm not sure I understand the point of using silly examples. Doesn't it sort of weaken the argument?
For example, many people would dismiss the shelf/stack argument out of hand. Most librarians I know have the word "shelf" in their vocabulary, and many use "shelves" more than they do "stacks". To argue that "librarians miss out on perfectly good systems because they were looking for the word 'stacks' somewhere in the systems description" maybe shows a misunderstanding of librarians? I know it was intended to be a silly example, but it's sort of telling in a way.
Bernie Sloan
--- On Wed, 9/24/08, Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen_at_GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> From: Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen_at_GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Library Technologies and Library School (was Commercial Vendors and Open Source Software)
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 3:10 PM
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 21:06, B.G. Sloan
> <bgsloan2_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> > What are "Stacks delivery systems"?
>
> A library version of a shelf delivery system, which can be
> anything
> from a fancy robot-driven storage and retrieval system, to
> the
> librarian hitting "print" and wander over to
> section H to get the
> thing. And anything in between. These are just silly
> examples of where
> librarians miss out on perfectly good systems because they
> were
> looking for the word "stacks" somewhere in the
> systems description.
>
>
> Alex
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