On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, J. McRee Elrod wrote:
> I would suggest that OCLC begin by ceasing to attempt to put
> restrictions on the use of records which have passed through their
> database.
Revolutions (i.e. just stop what you are doing now) are never simple
solutions in and of themselves.
Since OCLCs is actually (or theoretically) *our* database, would
eliminating all such "attempted" restrictions be absolutely beneficial to
*us*, the database, and its manager? Could total elimination be in any
way counterproductive in a "non-profit" environment?
Let's investigate the reasons why the attempted restrictions are in
place.
We (the 70,000 libraries who use OCLC) need to negotiate with OCLC for
the wording of a process to serve the purposes of the current procedure
which satisfies the needs of all parties.
C'mon-- 70,000 libraries should not have to act individually!
Cheers!
jgm
John G. Marr
Cataloger
CDS, UL
Univ. of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
jmarr_at_unm.edu
jmarr_at_flash.net
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Received on Thu Jul 29 2010 - 14:19:13 EDT