Re: A fundamental question we seem to be dancing around

I don't think "Inclusive of availability data" should even be a question. It should be a given that both a discovery tool and an inventory tool need to show "availability data".

Bernie Sloan


--- On Fri, 2/13/09, Dobbs, Aaron <AWDobbs_at_SHIP.EDU> wrote:

> From: Dobbs, Aaron <AWDobbs_at_SHIP.EDU>
> Subject: [NGC4LIB] A fundamental question we seem to be dancing around
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 9:20 AM
> 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 :)
> 
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