If the cost of changing that awful legacy data is prohibitively high, what good are all the wonderful things that cannot be fully implemented. Price change is one thing, product changes another. If the Toolkit continues to be unfinished, unstable, untried, what's to say how much, or little it may be worth when all is said and done. Same copy of AACR2 which I held since 1978, I still hold, and can still consult for records that are AACR2 compliant. When divided by 35 years, cost per year is low indeed. Information gleaned only awhile ago from the Toolkit may be changed already. Thus true cost of it, with its rate of obsolescence, is high indeed. Jack Franciscan University of Steubenville
>>> James Weinheimer <weinheimer.ji...@gmail.com> 11/22/2013 1:02 PM >>> > On 11/22/2013 4:29 PM, Abbas, June M. wrote: <snip> I would also like to note that LIS schools will now be charged for access to the Toolkit. In my case this will make it very difficult to provide access to the Toolkit for my students. I am not sure why ALA Publishing decided to require LIS schools to purchase access but I know I will have to find alternative ways to provide access for my students. </snip> Well, I guess your students will come to understand the term "monopoly". Of course, when the time comes for retrospective conversion of the millions of records in that awful, terrible "legacy data" to update the relators and relationships, *that* is when libraries will see the major costs. And I am sure there will be other sundry costs thrown in along the way. -- James Weinheimer weinheimer.ji...@gmail.com First Thus http://catalogingmatters.blogspot.com/ First Thus Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/FirstThus Cooperative Cataloging Rules http://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules/ Cataloging Matters Podcasts http://blog.jweinheimer.net/p/cataloging-matters-podcasts.html Scanned by for virus, malware and spam by SCM appliance
