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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Linde,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">One thing that I found really inspiring about Mann’s work is that he had a conception of the reference librarian as detective. As he put it, the “surrogates,”
that is, the catalog, couldn’t be expected to show you where everything was. Possibly the only way you could find some things was to go the shelves and leaf through books in an area that seemed appropriate for your topic. And as I said, ultimately it’s the
scholar himself, and those who help him like his graduate advisor, who is responsible for solving detailed issues about what is in the literature. Our job is just to help the scholars find things as best we can.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Richard,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If I understood what you said at the end of your last message, it sounds like you’re suggesting that DCRM(x) could be a sort of “refuge” for detailed cataloging
if OCLC allows DCRM(x) records to escape merging with poorer records. That might be a good idea, but I imagine you’re not suggesting that we put local notes in 500 $5 for every rare book library, are you? Sorry to be so ignorant of how World Cat Local works.
We haven’t subscribed to it here. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Best, Ted
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Linde B.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 25, 2015 1:00 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] Discontinuation of OCLC's institutional records program<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Ted P Gemberling <<a href="mailto:tgemberl@uab.edu" target="_blank">tgemberl@uab.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I would think the ILL system can’t be expected to find all the detail scholars want.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#0C343D">Actually, OCLC is one of the most exasperating impediments to research in book history, because of this particularly lazy attitude. You can scarcely
figure out which library has what, because the libraries don't know, with of course the exception of rare book cataloging.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#0C343D">Well, that and the simply error-laden cataloging.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#0C343D">A person whose statements never quite match reality is either a liar or psychotic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#0C343D">So what do we call a database in which the records never match reality?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#0C343D">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#0C343D">Linde<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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