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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Weinheimer Jim
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 2:42 AM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Whiny and demanding; rude and arrogant; clueless and uninformed
Janet Hill wrote:
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You'd better include technical services folks (catalogers, metadata specialists, whatever you want to call them) in your collaborative group, since they are the ones who are most intimately acquainted with the content, various ways to manipulate it, what kinds of things it can do to display, and in some cases which things are impracticable (though possibly desirable), and which cool things might be possible (if only .....)
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At the risk of being too blunt and making myself the object of general derision, I think that at the level these people will be discussing, perhaps it would be best that if technical services people attend, they should only be there as observers, that is, to sit, watch, and listen. It seems obvious to me that what is needed now is *imagination* and this imagination should not be limited by what the technicians immediately consider to be impracticable.<snip>
James L. Weinheimer j.weinheimer_at_aur.edu
Director of Library and Information Services
The American University of Rome
Rome, Italy
First Thus: http://catalogingmatters.blogspot.com/
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Jim,
Just because we haven't all drunk the Kool-Aid lately doesn't mean we haven't any imagination. And just because we don't immediately embrace every idea for change doesn't mean we haven't any imagination. And just because some other folks are ready to toss the baby doesn't mean they necessarily have the right imagination for the future.
Michael Mitchell
Technical Services Librarian
Brazosport College
Lake Jackson, TX
michael.mitchell at brazosport.edu
Received on Tue Sep 21 2010 - 09:47:52 EDT