Actually, your approach is almost guaranteed to cut off conversation and
discussion rather than stimulate it. Perhaps that's why so few have picked
up your dismissively thrown gauntlet. It may be that your experience of
librarians not "picking up outside hints" has more to do with you than them.
Janet Swan Hill, Professor
Associate Director for Technical Services
University of Colorado Libraries, CB184
Boulder, CO 80309
janet.hill_at_colorado.edu
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Alexander Johannesen
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 12:57 AM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] After MARC...MODS?
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 08:07, Cory Rockliff <rockliff_at_bgc.bard.edu> wrote:
> Surely you have some of your own ideas about how catalogers could make
> themselves useful, though?
Oh, for sure, plenty of ideas, but if there's one thing I've learned
over the years it is that librarians don't take outside hints nor
suggestions, so I'm desperately trying to at least trigger librarians
to do something themselves, to do their own thinking and reaction.
Creating awareness of what librarians don't really want to know about
seems to be important enough, and hopefully my stupid, over-dramatic
participation here could trigger the smallest trickle of progress.
That would make me happy. I don't have any library job to lose which
also adds to my communique, I can only lose the potential of my
reputation and clout which, realistically, isn't as valuable as what
I'm fighting for.
Anyway. Off to pry fighting kids off each other with a crowbar.
Regards,
Alex
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