Re: Article recommendation: OPACs, Google, and cataloging theory

From: Laval Hunsucker <amoinsde_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 13:54:00 -0700
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
James Weinheimer wrote :

> Yet, none of that should be surprising since people have
> always had problems with the catalog--that's why
> reference librarians exist.

Perhaps we should here recall that it has been seriously
argued in the literature that the very existence of a reference
department should in itself be taken as living proof that the 
library in question is poorly conceived and organized. ( Or 
something roughly to that effect. Perhaps someone here has 
the precise reference. )

 
- Laval Hunsucker
  Breukelen, Nederland
Received on Thu May 26 2011 - 17:01:35 EDT