I agree. We are swimming against the tide.
Marilyn Montalvo Head Technical Services Dept. Library System University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus > Every time I see a discussion about how hard FRBR is to understand (which > it is), how difficult the RDA Toolkit is to use (which it is), and the > fact that RDA will actually increase the amount of work we have to do to > each bibliographic record (which it does), I get more and more > discouraged. Cataloging as a profession has been gasping for breath. It > desperately needed to become simpler, more transparent, and more > attractive to library school students, easier for management to > understand. Instead, it seems to me that the opposite is happening, and > at the worst possible time. It seems to me that our leaders are taking us > over a cliff, and they keep explaining to us why what they're doing is > very, very important, as we're plummeting to the ground. > This is my own personal opinion as someone who has been cataloging for > twenty years -- not that of my employer. > > > > Billie Hackney > Senior Monograph Cataloger > Getty Research Institute > 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 > Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688 > (310) 440-7616 > bhack...@getty.edu >
