Cataloging the Internet

[Tony Barry]

At 12:54 PM 17/10/95, weibel at oclc.org wrote:
>Know your patrons.  Develop the niche.  Remember the Dodo bird.

And coopers, wheelwrights, typesetters, switchboard operators etc ..

The business we and the publishers and booksellers are in is not books or
catalogues or printing but helping communication between those with
something substantial to tell and those who want to know.

On the network the supporting systems that help people communicate may no
longer be that group of industries with which we are familiar.  There may
well be fewer players needed.

Tony

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