What is "the catalog"?
Which, to me, breaks out in at least the following three directions:
Should/can the catalog be a broad discovery layer?
-Inclusive of all of an individual libraries informational holdings?
-Inclusive of [all or many or a distinct subset of] libraries information?
-Inclusive of article/chapter/phrase level data?
-Inclusive of availability data?
Should/can the catalog be an authoritative inventory tool?
-Inclusive of authoritative known-item searches down to every MARC tag level?
-Inclusive of all of an individual libraries informational holdings?
-Inclusive of [all or many or a distinct subset of] libraries information?
-Inclusive of article/chapter/phrase level data?
-Inclusive of availability data?
Should/can the catalog be a one-stop tool for both discovery and inventory as described above?
-Aaron
:-)'
PS also not rhetorical questions :)
Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.
-Dale Carnegie
Received on Fri Feb 13 2009 - 09:24:11 EST