dchud++
Daniel Chudnov said the following on 1/26/2007 10:59 AM:
> On Jan 26, 2007, at 10:19 AM, Roy Tennant wrote:
>
>> Those of you (are there any?) who can't or don't want to login to see
>> berick's response should know that it is:
>>
>> aren't we all morons in the face of MARC?
>
> Why so negative toward a spec that's served our community for nigh
> unto forty years? I'd much rather see something fun or silly and not
> disparaging of anything and would vote against this if we were set up
> to vote against something. I mean, wouldn't you really then mean for
> it to say:
>
> "...in the face of MARC? By which, of course, we mean MARC with ISBD
> punctuation and AACR2 rules, the combination of which might make
> sense still to some members of our community but to us snarky geek
> types is really quite difficult to work with, so much so that we love
> dropping metaphorical bombs on it even while we don't really have a
> decent solution for replacing it quite yet hence the insecurity we
> share in great evidence by mocking it on a conference t-shirt."
>
> For good or ill, our profession is invested in MARC, and to parade
> around in clothes disparaging it (or in a shirt mocking any
> particular individual, which was, apparently, my first annual t-shirt
> suggestion objection, last year) seems like the wrong impression to
> give. Just because we blow off steam sometimes by acting like junior
> high schoolers on-channel doesn't mean we have to document similar
> behavior on clothing we'll all wear to other conferences.
--
Edward M. Corrado
http://www.tcnj.edu/~corrado/
Systems Librarian
The College of New Jersey
403E TCNJ Library
PO Box 7718 Ewing, NJ 08628-0718
Tel: 609.771.3337 Fax: 609.637.5177
Email: [log in to unmask]
|