I read the two petitions that were submitted to the LC Cataloging presidium, and had to chuckle.
Although we pride ourselves that librarians were the first professionals to embrace computers -- The inventors of Yahoo picked the brains of a few librarians before launching their mega-million enterprise-- some librarians, especially those who belong to unions, are very suspicious of any change. These petitions are classic documents of resistance to change. On the one hand they advocate the continuation of authorized series added entries -- providing useful added access -- good!! but on the other resist the cataloging of individual titles in monographic series -- too much work-- bad!!! Hey, chevraya, wake up, we are in the age of Google! We all know how do keyword searches! Forget the card catalog already! Aviva Astrinsky Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
