Web vs CB radio

[Robin Aurelius]

I think we should use the analogy of Ham radio as an advanced tool for CBers
a place (platform) where rules are instituted to help communicators keep 
the lines clear and running at full power. We need to reduce idle chat on 
the wavefront, but retain spontaneity.

As to the catalog hierarchy, I feel the net's indexing is moving very 
rapidly to a dual system, like libraries. I see Dewey being instituted 
for global searching of multi-type files. Not much mention of Sears--too 
restrictive. LC is probably too complicated for on the fly cataloging.

Rather than put the library catalog within the Web Page, or the Web page 
as an option on the Sirsi engine, try doing both. Redundancy. Thats how 
the military does it.
Sincerely,
Robin Aurelius
Library Technician
Freeport Elementary School
Sacramento, CA


On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Bobbie McDonnell wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> Joe Schallan wrote:
> 
> The contrarian in me makes me ask, Is the web to the 90s
> what CB radio was to the 70s?  As you may recall, CB was
> useful and fun until so many people crowded onto it
> that it became unusable.  Could it be that in twenty years
> we'll still be loaning books and answering reference questions,
> while the older among us will wistfully look at one another
> from time to time and say "Remember the web?"
> 
> 
> An interesting point and not one to be taken lightly. We are now moving
> toward having the library catalog available to patrons on our Internet
> homepage ( using WebCat by Sirsi) rather than what we envisioned only a few
> years ago, which was to have the Internet as a choice on the library
> server.  Is it shortsighted to put all our eggs in the Internet basket?
> 
>                          Bobbie
> 
> 
>                 Bobbie McDonnell
>                 Oliver Wendell Holmes Library
>                 Phillips Academy
>                 bmcdonnell at andover.edu
> 
> 
> 
>