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• 24 Dec 08
  

  Lisa Spiro

  Inspired by call for comment on LC's future of bibliographic control, calls on libraries to jump on the clue-train. Points to rights & access issues as being central. "Looking ahead ten, twenty, fifty years, do any of us believe that the issues of access and description will not be driven overwhelmingly by issues related to digital content—some of it in fantastical, ever-mutating new forms (q.v. the networked book forms such as those proposed by The Institute for the Future of the Book)? "

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• 27 May 08
  

  Floyd Pentlin

  Bibliographic control in a digital age

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• 21 Mar 08
  

  malin cantwell

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• 28 Nov 07
  

  Bibliofusion Pierre Chicoine

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• 06 Sep 07
  

  Fabiano Caruso

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• 23 Apr 07
  

  michelemmartin

  To paraphrase Andrew Abbott's point in The System of Professions, we are behaving like the train companies, who thought they were in the train business, not the transportation business, and like them, there are already signs that the “train business”

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  • To paraphrase Andrew Abbott's point in The System of Professions, we are behaving like the train companies, who thought they were in the train business, not the transportation business, and like them, there are already signs that the “train business” we do is on artificial life support. We are not even close to being the first service of choice for information seekers; we are pretty much down there with asking one's mother. Libraries across the country are increasingly asked to justify their existence in order to receive continued funding, and some have been unable to do so.
    

    
    Even the very interesting work done with the concept of library as “place,” and the remarkable public commons that have arisen, should not obscure the increasing difficulty of explaining why this “place” needs to be library-based to begin with.
  • We do need a train--a clue-train.
  • Naturally, users want easy access to information; I furrowed my brow at the observation in the background paper that “users have come to expect that information should be easy to discover,” as I hope this point is not open to debate. Our old tools are not easy or particularly accessible; our old way of doing things is unjustifiably laborious and expensive (and may have contributed to the pickle we are in, by increasing the temptation to agree to less-than-optimal negotiations with content licensors).

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• 21 Apr 07
  

  lauren pressley

  worth rereading. some very good and interesting points.

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• 17 Mar 07
  

  Richard Akerman
  • It is both ironic and poignant that librarians are still worrying about “bibliographic control,” after ceding so much of the same to the companies that now rent them journal access per annum at usurious rates, digitize their book collections into DRM obscurity, or sell them ponderous, antiquated “management” systems that on close inspection do little more than serve as storehouses for the metadata specific to the formats of bygone eras, bold days when we saw our central roles as defenders and curators of our cultural heritage.
• 08 Mar 07
  

  Joshua Neff

  cataloging libraries library library2.0

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