Comments on: LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

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Uncontrolled Vocabulary #25 - Sacrifice for us | Uncontrolled Vocabulary — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:41:23 +0000

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Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:00:07 +0000

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By: Dorothea Salo

Dorothea Salo — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:21:43 +0000

Yes, Mark, I signed the petition.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:41:54 +0000

Yes’m, Laura. Kind of how I feel exactly.

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:51:01 +0000

I am not a cataloger (should that be an abbreviation–IANAC?), but I’ve found any number of records I wish I could fix. To know that people who actually know how also can’t do it is unutterably depressing.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:12:40 +0000

Hi Dorothea. Yes, the state of our tools are incredibly lacking. Or, perhaps that ought to be lacking credibility?

Ben, yes, there needs to be other models, or at least a complete revision of the current one. Have you signed that petition re license-free bib data?

Hi Chris. So you do your editing in WorldCat and then import the records, but you’re not really updating WorldCat with the edits?

I do understand because I much prefer record creation/editing in Connexion than in Voyager.

If you’re not actually updating records, then is this particular workflow due to preference for working in WorldCat? (Connexion or WorldCat? – I’ve only ever downloaded records from WorldCat (another job) but use the Connexion client where I am now) Or is it for some other reason?

By: Chris Schwartz

Chris Schwartz — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:01:44 +0000

Hey, Mark. I feel your pain. This is an everyday occurrence for me also. The tough part is that our workflow is set up in such a way that it would be very easy for the cataloging staff I supervise to enrich records and make them better. Unlike some libraries, we do most of our editing in WorldCat before we import records into Voyager.

By: Benjamin Hockenberry

Benjamin Hockenberry — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:05:22 +0000

I don’t think your anti-prepub assault is off the mark at all, Mark…[really, I typed that without thinking of the nom de plum de jour, chuckle]. I’m not using OCLC at my current place of employ, so I have some other mixed feelings about the way tools and workflows are driving theory — the in-crowd model of the current cooperative cataloguing system doesn’t take into account alternative models. My current primary workflow involves not the centralized override-oriented OCLC model, but the distributed Z39.50 model. A lot of the talk in discussing future models of bibliographic control assumes a universal presence in OCLC or comparable cooperatives…but there will continue to be divergent communities, and those that aren’t in the in-crowd will be less capable of hanging on to the caboose. I think I just mixed my metaphors horribly.

By: What He Said « The Grammatically Incorrect Librarian

What He Said « The Grammatically Incorrect Librarian — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:52:44 +0000

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