Always dangerous to try and steer language in a desired direction. Google say "we'd like to make clear that you should please only use "Google" when you’re actually referring to Google Inc. and our services." (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/do-you-google.html)
Good luck with that!
Owen
Owen Stephens
Assistant Director: eStrategy and Information Resources
Central Library
Imperial College London
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Bernhard Eversberg
> Sent: 17 February 2009 12:56
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Does cataloging have value? [the word "catalog"]
>
> James Weinheimer wrote:
>
> >> But then, what exactly would a new name actually change?
> >
> > It may focus some people's attention. Unfortunately, these things
> really do
> > seem to make a difference in how people relate to you. Also, as Owen
> points
> > out, it also can make us feel differently about ourselves. The
> "catalog" has
> > always been insular and separated from many other related tools.
> >
> Granted, all of this. What I meant was, however, a change in substance
> and function, not in anyone's feelings about it.
>
> >
> > I don't know what new name to call it, but you would never get
> anything like
> > consensus. The idea is to just start calling it ____ and see what
> happens. A
> > good name would probably catch on--but I am very, very bad at naming
> things.
> >
> That's what I was saying - no one so far came up with a name that was
> at
> once appealing, nice, brief, internationally understandable and
> evocative of all the right connotations. One may drop some of these
> prerequisites, and then get to monikers like these:
> coogle
> knoogle
> catoogle
> cataloogle
> or the less obvious
> accessor
> cataplex
> catarix
> catrax
> carax (many will have read "The Shadow of the wind")
> but only if all else fails, the obnoxious, pedestrian acronym
> OPAC
>
> which even here in Germany some end-users do seem to know and use.
>
> B.Eversberg
Received on Tue Feb 17 2009 - 08:49:27 EST