[Sigia-l] About bloody time?

[Webb, KerryA]

Andrew wrote:

> 
> not to deliberately upset the LIS faction, 

Us??  Upset??

> but... the Library 2.0 mantra goes something like this:
> Any single categorisation system is doomed to failure. DDC was one
> way, it should never have been the only way, 

It wasn't.

> and yet it (despite its flaws) serves as a way to physically segregate

> books. 

We actually prefer the word "arrange"

> Have the
> hierarchical taxonomy of your choice, but then let us find what we
> need in a way that we can use. 

Most of the LIS crew have been working on this for quite a few years.

> Or accept that Amazon is the new
> Library and stop pretending to help, and instead relegate yourself to
> a collection maintenance role. 

For much of the world, Amazon is not the new library.  The old libraries
try to help those people.

> Make your catalogues freely available in a way that we can use.
> 

A bit of funding would help.

Kerry 
  
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