On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 22:24, Lundgren,Jimmie Harrell
<jimlund_at_uflib.ufl.edu> wrote:
> Ugh, I'm not sure I accept your view as the ultimate definition of what the world wants.
Good!
> Users and public services librarians want icons displayed to visually cue
> users in on what kind of thing is being described such as book, online
> resource, dvd, map, etc.
This is terribly old hat, is in't? Never mind, the important question
is, how did you find out your users wants this? If the answer is
through some UX testing, then you're testing on the status quo, you're
not testing the future.
> Catalogers have nothing to do with it. We will adapt and work with
> whatever comes along, as we have continually adapted to change
> after change in cataloging rules and in MARC formats since the
> introduction of online cataloging in the 1970's.
Um, how are you going to adapt and work with whatever comes along, if
what comes along is something that eats catalogers for breakfast?
> I don't think we'll keep quiet about portrayals of the bibliographic
> universe or user needs as simple, however.
What do you mean here?
Regards,
Alex
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