[WEB4LIB] Re: Amazon vs. Google as our corporate role model (was:

[Roy Tennant]

On May 11, 2005, at 5:33 AM, Peter Murray wrote:

> If there is an overarching theme, perhaps I'm saying that we are 
> resting
> on laurels.  Someone recently remarked that libraries were among the
> early innovators of information technology.  We did, after all, have
> thousands or millions of items in our inventories that were better
> discovered and tracked by library automation in the 1970's and 1980's 
> --
> well before the invention of The Internet.  It is, however, time to 
> kick
> it back into gear and meet the users where their expectations are now.

Indeed. My point as well about our MARC/AACR2-bound systems. We now 
live in an Internet world abounding in metadata that we can neither 
produce nor consume. Time to stop resting on our laurels and get to 
work!
Roy