Don't Say I Didn't Warn You
If you think this is bad, you've never had a conversation with a cataloger.
posted by Degolar @ 10:19 PM
3.08.2008
Degolar
A Youth Services Librarian who blogs pseudonymously; A D&D character, a bard, equivalent of librarian in the oral tradition; An idealistically liberal Christian with socialist leanings; An overweight sometimes triathlete; Husband and parent; Hints of Loki, Falstaff, and Pan.
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""In any case, fire burns; that's its nature, and you can't expect to change that. You can use it to cook your meat or to burn down your neighbor's house. And is the fire you use for cooking any different from the one you use for burning? And does that mean you should eat your supper raw?"
Maddy shook her head, still puzzled. "So what you're saying is . . . I shouldn't play with fire," she said at last.
"Of course you should," said One-Eye gently. "But don't be surprised if the fire plays back.""— Joanne Harris
3 Comments:
How could I make it better? I easily found what I was looking for, but that wasn't my point. In order to improve our catalogue, I suggest we remove all Rosie O'Donnell related items to ensure that this kind of thing never happens again.
I don't think we should remove them. Just mask them from patron view :)
If you have a catalog and I have a catalog and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink up your catalog.
Anyway, the reason I said that at the end is that there are those in the library world who feel that the library catalog needs to be scrapped. That we could learn a lot from Amazon and Google. That patrons shouldn't have to be taught how to search effectively, but that it should be obvious and easy. That we are too tied to old school thinking and the card catalog with its author, title, and subject searching and that the Internet opens up a whole new world that we haven't effectively made use of. But we still need to figure out how to do that.
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