Kyle Banerjee asks:
> I feel there is another issue at play, namely that librarians are sometimes
> too quick to let others
> dump their grunt work on them. For example, if it's important for a
> department to track its own
> output when they know better than anyone else who is involved and what they
> want to track,
> why do they expect to hand this problem to librarians who will just parse
> through a bunch Of
> inconsistent and incomplete data they find and cobble together on their own?
> It's complicated,
> way more labor intensive and less accurate than anything the department would
> do, and
> doomed to failure out the door.
One sad problem I have seen is that the departments (or the members of the
departments) _don't_ really want to track their own output, because they are
afraid that it will end up being used to evaluate their performance. The
larger organization wants to track output for promotional purposes and
encouraging collaboration between departments and organizations, but the
departments oppose efforts to require it. That leaves organizations
floundering for other solutions.
Steve McDonald
steve.mcdon...@tufts.edu
