At the risk of being blunt, catalogers think too much and take themselves
too seriously. That has been their problem all along. And it is true of
Libraryland generally. In doing so they make themselves ever more
irrelevant.
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:05 PM, john g marr <jmarr_at_unm.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, James Weinheimer wrote:
>
> Imagine a record with a heading like "World War,
>> 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front--Personal narratives, Hungarian". I can
>> guarantee that nobody--absolutely *nobody* will *ever* come up with a query
>> like that. The heading, based on its own merits, is completely and totally
>> incoherent and 100% unfindable.
>>
>
> Hi James:
>
> Would a suggestion to "post-coordinate" such complex headings be
> practical? E.g.:
>
> World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front
>
> World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Hungarian
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> jgm
>
> John G. Marr
> CDS, UL
> Univ. of New Mexico
> Albuquerque, NM 87131
> jmarr_at_unm.edu
> californiastop_at_hushmail.com
>
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Received on Tue Oct 08 2013 - 19:22:02 EDT