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Eric, But that's where all my stuff is! -Ross. On 6/5/06, Eric Hellman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I would argue that our energy would be better spent thinking about > the next generation library rather than the next generation opac. > > Is it just me, or does anyone else feel that the very idea of having > a catalog as an important component of a library smacks of retrograde > thinking? To my mind, in a clean-slate NG Library architecture, the > library catalog should only exist as a facade that recognizes of the > vanity of libraries and the people who fund them. > > I can think of no technical justification for library catalogs as we > look forward. If not the next generation, then the next-next > generation of libraries. The functions that exist today in library > catalogs need to be pushed in two directions- toward the user on one > hand, and towards global registries on the other. > > the other Eric > -- > > Eric Hellman, Director OCLC Openly > Informatics Division > [log in to unmask] 2 Broad St., Suite 208 > tel 1-973-509-7800 fax 1-734-468-6216 Bloomfield, NJ 07003 > http://www.openly.com/1cate/ 1 Click Access To Everything > >