Comments on: A reaction to notes from the third Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control http://www.familymanlibrarian.com/2007/07/11/a-reaction-to-notes-from-the-third-working-group-on-the-future-of-bibliographic-control/ A blog about family, technology, and libraries Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: <![CDATA[Steve]]> http://www.familymanlibrarian.com/2007/07/11/a-reaction-to-notes-from-the-third-working-group-on-the-future-of-bibliographic-control/comment-page-1/#comment-2091 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:06:06 +0000 http://familymanlibrarian.com/?p=649#comment-2091 Jay, wow. I had not heard of this latest Zotero functionality. Poor choice of words, but COOL, so cool. Your point about the possible "mootness" (made up word) of this stuff is well worth pondering. Jay, wow. I had not heard of this latest Zotero functionality. Poor choice of words, but COOL, so cool. Your point about the possible “mootness” (made up word) of this stuff is well worth pondering.

]]> By: <![CDATA[Jay Datema]]> http://www.familymanlibrarian.com/2007/07/11/a-reaction-to-notes-from-the-third-working-group-on-the-future-of-bibliographic-control/comment-page-1/#comment-2090 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:01:23 +0000 http://familymanlibrarian.com/?p=649#comment-2090 Thanks for your thoughtful reaction to my notes--large libraries change very slowly, and when they do, it causes massive changes. In part, some libraries (Cornell is one) have radically reordered their cataloging operations, but the big question is--what next? If the cataloging world isn't MARC-centric, then what should people spend their time doing? Many libraries have directors who advanced from cataloging positions. Is their hard-earned knowledge less relevant now? And is this whole process becoming <a href="http://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-and-google-tools-screencast/" rel="nofollow">moot</a>, with things like Zotero and Google Books interoperating in the sort of way the catalog and reference managers ought to do better? Thanks for your thoughtful reaction to my notes–large libraries change very slowly, and when they do, it causes massive changes.

In part, some libraries (Cornell is one) have radically reordered their cataloging operations, but the big question is–what next?

If the cataloging world isn’t MARC-centric, then what should people spend their time doing?

Many libraries have directors who advanced from cataloging positions. Is their hard-earned knowledge less relevant now?

And is this whole process becoming moot, with things like Zotero and Google Books interoperating in the sort of way the catalog and reference managers ought to do better?

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