GEN: response ideas

[Anita Drain <adrain@PANESU.ORG>]

Anyone have suggestions on how to DIPLOMATICALLY respond to the
following questions? -- from an administrator when I asked for funding
to get our catalog on-line.

"Are we sure that on-line [network] catalogue is the best route??"

"If  it ever got lost, how would we know what our inventory is??"

Other than "well DUH!" I can't seem to think of a response.  I had
expected more along the line of "Can we afford this?"  Is there any
library that would not automate if the funds were there? Maybe I'm
unique, but I thought that getting the catalog automated & on line was
the goal of any library, anywhere.

Anita Drain, Media Director
Hay Springs School
Hay Springs, NE 69347
adrain@panesu.org

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