Yahoo, LII, etc.

[Inyo County Free Library]

Karen G. Schneider wrote:
 
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> So now we have the LII--perhaps renamed a little more slickly, like
> Find-All--beefed up into a non-commercial database, cooperatively
> maintained by funding, congruent with existing standards, searchable on its
> own or through any library catalog--many views, same data.  High public
> trust, high quality, all the good stuff we stand for...
> 
> dreaming away in the Northeast... there are over 150,000 librarians in the
> U.S.; we can't do this?

Actually, we could start now, with no big grant funding, if librarians
would volunteer to take over a subject area in which they have some
expertise and if LII would accept our submissions (Carole?).  It's a
*lot* of work for one person to oversee, and we could alleviate this by
submitting our suggestions in "html-ready" form (like "camera-ready" for
the printer).

Wouldn't this be a helpful/useful thing for us to do?


-- 
Glenna Stansifer, Director
Inyo County Free Library
Independence, CA USA
inyocolib at qnet.com