[WEB4LIB] Re: "Catalog" was Naming of...appliances

[Jennifer Heise]

> Not that I would ever wish to suggest that academic librarians might be able to
> learn anything from public librarians.[insert sardonic emoticon of choice
> here]..but here, as in most other cases involving actual service orientation, I
> think the public librarians are and always have been right. Your online catalog
> is a catalog. Giving it a name may make for an amusing contest but certainly
> doesn't increase communication to any user.

Um. The difference may lie in the fact that 'catalog' has TWO meanings
in academia, whereas in public libraries it has only one?

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