[Web4lib] How to label the OPAC, flexibility for public service

Bernhard Eversberg ev at buch.biblio.etc.tu-bs.de
Tue Jul 26 09:15:03 EDT 2005


Junus, Ranti wrote:
> 
> I think nothing is wrong with the catalog.  What wrong is, IMHO, it was not designed to be flexible for public service purposes.  It was designed just for library staff to use.
> 
Not quite! C. Cutter had definitely more in mind than that when he 
formulated his "objects for a catalog" in 1876 or so:
   http://www.allegro-c.de/formate/gz-1e.htm
Not all of it is obsolete.


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