Yay, team!
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 8:58 AM, J. McRee Elrod <m...@slc.bc.ca> wrote:
> James said:
>
> >... we have seen >lots and lots of discussion among catalogers about
> >the "D" (Description) but relatively little about "A" (Access).
>
> Perhaps because RDA says nothing about indexing and display, both
> vital for access?
>
> >... what about new methods of access *using the data we already
> >have*?
>
> Yes, what we most need is development of ILS/OPACs, as opposed to new
> rules or a new coding scheme.
>
> I seem to recall a story of two medieval stone masons being asked what
> they were doing. One replied that he was chipping at a stone. The
> other replied that he was building a cathedral. As cataloguers, we
> need to stop just chippping stones, and return to cathedral building,
> a task we abandoned to the automation folk when we moved from card
> catalogues. Our task should be to build catalogues, not just create
> bibliographic records.
>
>
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