More thoughts about the catalog

Posted on October 28th, 2008 by fpentlin

One of my students wrote recently
Google is taking over the world, fact! We might as well embrace it. There will always be a place for LC cataloging and Classification, and it’s where Thomas Mann said it would be: For scholars and high-level researchers.
Google is not going to take over the world. Google is going to [...]

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Podcasting in the catalog

Posted on October 28th, 2008 by fpentlin

I’ve been thinking a lot about cataloging recently — mainly because I’m teaching a cataloging class for the first time. Needless to say much has changed since I took cataloging — oh, when dinosaurs roamed. One of the things that we have been discussing in my class is the merits of the catalog as it [...]

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