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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Alexander Johannesen
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 5:37 PM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] After MARC...MODS?
Guys,
I'm not impressed. My rant isn't designed to tick people off, nor to
say that you are all worthless and are going to die. Why haven't
anyone picked up the challenges and explained to me in no uncertain
terms why we need catalogers in the future? It's such a simple
question, you shouldn't be avoiding it, and there should be plenty of
easy answers.
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This is trivial stuff. You don't need a cataloger and definitely not a
cataloging specialists for this sort of stuff. The question is why we need
those meta data / cataloging specialists? What part of the future do they
fit into?
Alex
alexander.johannesen ---
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Mr. Johannesen,
What you seem to not realize is that these are the same people that will do
the work in the new environment. Or more to the point the same "kind" of
people.
Point 1 : The same folks that obsess over ISBD are the same people that have
the minds and experience for the complex subject analysis; that have the
same minds to learn new meta-data schemes. Yes, they are slow to change
once invested, but we are talking about the same folks.
Point 2 : Experience has shown that over time any new meta-data scheme will
digress into increasing complexity. There will be calls for standardization
and the creation of entrenched specialists. I can't seem to find any
experts in Panizzi's "91 Rules" anywhere these days. They retired, or died,
or learned the new rules and formats. But, they were still cataloging
specialists; and so are we.
We are part of the same line of a proud tradition that is dedicated
to maintaining metadata so that it can be preserved and accessed by users in
a useful way.
--
Todd Puccio
Director of Technical Services / Librarian
Nova Southeastern University
Health Professions Division Library
3200 S. University Drive
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33328
(954)262-3114 or ext 2-3114
puccio_at_nsu.nova.edu
Received on Fri Apr 23 2010 - 11:07:51 EDT