Yes, I would like to see some serious discussion of open source ILS alternatives, or moving to the network level (OCLC web scale management, etc.). That's where the discussion needs to be.
Bradford Lee Eden, Ph.D.
Associate University Librarian for Technical Services & Scholarly Communication
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California 93106
(805)893-4261
eden_at_library.ucsb.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Koppel" <tpk_at_AUTO-GRAPHICS.COM>
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 2:44:46 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Participation in the NGC4LIB list (was: mailing list administratativa)
I'm a not-very-frequent poster, but a regular reader of this list. I'll
throw in my two cents about why participation is comparatively low:
Observation 1) A huge majority of the discussions evolve (or perhaps
I should say - devolve) into a whinefest about how bad MARC is. OK,
we get it. MARC isn't a tool for the '10s. What the discussion can't
seem to do is move on. Rather than dwell on the inadequacies of MARC,
why not raise the conversation to one of problem solving? Maybe in
posit some theoretical approaches? When was the last time that someone
compared Primo to its discover layers? Why are Endeca and AquaBrowser
(just to name two) so seldom mentioned?
Observation 2) The discussions and stands are predictable (probably
related to observation 1). I'm pretty sure that I know what Jim or
Karen (or anyone else) is going to say just by reading their name on the
"From" line. Guys, you need to mix it up and surprise the rest of us.
Observation 3) Maybe the "Next Generation Catalog" bus already left the
station, and no one here noticed it because we were all discussing MARC
records....
Ted
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