Re: Why don't non-librarians value library data as highly as we do?

B.G. Sloan wrote:
> I think there's a different reason why some of those in the "non-bibliographic world" undervalue or ignore library data. They perceive library data as being created *by* librarians, *for* librarians, to help manage library collections. 

And I don't think this is an _entirely_ inaccurate perception.  It's not 
entirely accurate either. And it was never our collective _intent_ to do 
that. But that's largely what we've ended up with, and it doesn't serve 
us well anymore even just for ourselves.

I would not be shocked if Google had simply decided that the 
work/resources required to try to pull useful data out of the OCLC 
corpus in a sophisticated way was not worth the gain.

Jonathan