Re: Shelf lists for circ. systems?

[Cathy Cheely <ccheely@LEO.VSLA.EDU>]

Before you dump your card catalog or your shelf list, I think
you (and everyone else thinking of doing the same) should read
an article that appeared in The New Yorker, April 4, 1994
entitled "The trashing of America's great libraries".  Until I
read that, I felt that we should just toss out the old card
catalog and shelf list and have a bonfire.  After I read it, I
felt COMPLETELY different.  The writer, Nicholson Baker,
explores some areas that I had never once contemplated.  If at
all possible, read it.

By the way,I converted to an automated catalog in the spring of
90 and have been and still am a strong advocate of technology.
--
Catherine Cheely - ccheely@leo.vsla.edu
Library Media Specialist,Brunswick Senior High,Lawrenceville, Va.23868
804 848-6287  (fax) 804 848-2796