Re: GEN: response ideas

[Carolyn Gierke <cgierke@SHS.K12.NY.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??"
Yes, because it is easier to search for materials this way AND that is the
way they will search at college and in the public library.
>
>
>"If  it ever got lost, how would we know what our inventory is??"
The system  (any system you would choose) automatically updates the files
daily, so you cannot lose anymore than one day's work or circulation in
even the worst case scenario.
>
>
>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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