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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Alexander Johannesen
> And here we hit upon the crux of the problem not only with software vs
> libraries but software vendors and other industries as well. Everything
> DOESN'T "just work"!
Everything? Surely you jest. I deal with systems on a daily basis
which "just works." Oh, you mean it doesn't "just work" because I need
to replace all the "shelf" words with "stacks", or something more
complex like "the indexer must know MARC, and create relevance ranking
based on the order of the various title fields, with 245 taking
presedence, unless it's a children story" or somesuch?
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Actually, I think that she was just saying that "not everything "just
works"" (at least that's what the sentence structure makes it mean), while
you appear to have read it as "nothing just works."
Ahhhh .... when did we give up diagramming sentences?
Janet Swan Hill, Professor
Associate Director for Technical Services
University of Colorado Libraries, CB184
Boulder, CO 80309
janet.hill_at_colorado.edu
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Received on Wed Sep 24 2008 - 14:13:49 EDT