On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 17:06, Bernhard Eversberg <ev_at_biblio.tu-bs.de> wrote:
> Alex asked the obvious and necessary questions and at once understood it
> ain't gonna be easy. Some progress.
No, no, that's taking it out of context. Creating your *list* isn't
going to be easy. Not only because of the language used, but because
we've all tried, both here on this list and elsewhere, for years to
create that list. My questions that should have simple answers are
about the profession of catalogers, and perhaps more specifically
specialist catalogers. If they cannot answer in fairly simple terms
what their future might or should be like, don't you think there's a
more serious underlying problem somewhere? I do.
But we can get back to the catalog, the mailing-list's ulterior
guiding light. The trouble is, I think, with a list that you just
gave, and perhaps pretty much most of the discussion we have here, is
that it always start with some reincarnation of a catalog. Why this
obsession about the catalog? Do you wanna know what the next
generation catalog is going to be? It's not going to be a catalog!
Anyway, just a clarification.
Alex
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