On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Eric Hellman wrote:

> I posted some comments in Web4Lib on this- but on code4lib, I'd like
> to be a bit more provocative and get y'all bothered.
>
> * What online resources would you collect?

        Information of interest to the community we serve.

> * How would you connect people to these new collections?

        Federated search

> * How will you control and manage these services?

        Registry of metadata describing the holdings of each member of the
        federation**

> * How will you provide your users with the most correct information possible?

        Send each request to the authoritative source, rather than attempt
        to mirror / cache data.
        Provide a mechanism for the community to complain and/or annotate
        the information.


** I don't work in bibliographical records, but in scientific data.
Therefore, we can easily track each archive by which instrument's data
they contain, and general observing parameters of the instruments.



> >We are looking for the first 50 participants who are willing to
> >visualize a library not focused solely on print resource management and
> >willing to go out on a limb and conceptualize the library which is
> >focused on user access and management of online resources & services.


Um ... I don't focus on print resources, as I don't have any.  However, I
don't know if I count as a 'library', either.


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Joe Hourcle