If you’ve been following along with OCLC’s recently revised—and suspended—policy regarding record-sharing, here’s a couple of stories you’ll want to check out.
OCLC’s recently revised—and suspended—policy regarding record-sharing: Norman Oder covers a Lively discussion at Midwinter Meeting, he writes OCLC’s Karen Calhoun defends intent, apologizes about communication while others question OCLC’s path.
DON’T MISS Consideration of OCLC Records Use Policy: “We build bibliographic records as surrogates for the desired object, meaning that the surrogate is a means to an end – retrieving the described object – and not an end onto itself. We build indexes of these surrogates for patrons to use to discover information. All other factors held constant, the better the surrogate, the greater the chance the user will find the information they are seeking. The following discussion looks at the sources of records, the way they are built, and what it means to try to share them.”
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My thoughts in the matter are here: http://lisnews.org/reflections_upon_lj_story
I end looking at things from a different angle than Disruptive Library Technology Jester.
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