Re: GEN: response ideas

[Nancy Papapetrou <npapapetrou@SUWANNEE.K12.FL.US>]

adrain@PANESU.ORG writes:
>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 we put the catalog on-line then it is available to the teachers and
their students in the class room before they get to the media center thus
saving time away from class and giving the teacher a better  opportunity
for guiding the selections students are making .  ETC ETC ETC
>
>"If  it ever got lost, how would we know what our inventory is??"

We should  always do a periodic backup of any program  we run whether on
line or by individual computer ( if any upgrades or changes have been made
to  said programs).

I gather from your last paragraph that you don't have an automated system
at all.  If you have computer automation  as regards the catalog only.
(OPAC)..you receive floppy disk  with each book order which takes  just
moments to load to the system  and there it is available to all right
then.  (therefore don't load the disk until the new books are shelved!).
>
>
>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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Nancy Papapetrou
Media Clerk
Suwannee Middle School
npapapetrou@suwannee.k12.fl.us
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