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I agree. Were I to wear such a shirt, it would make catalogers think: 1) I don't respect them, 2) I haven't taken the time to try and learn what's in a MARC record, and am not interested in doing so either. Or rather, it will confirm their assumptions that these things are already true. I am more interested in developing a better working relationship with catalogers not based on these sorts of assumptions. Jonathan Daniel Chudnov wrote: > 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. > -- Jonathan Rochkind Sr. Programmer/Analyst The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu