David Bade delivered this paper, I Know Where I Am Going, Do You?, at the 2007 American Library Association Annual Conference for an ALCTS forum on continuing resources (a.k.a., serials). Some quotes:
"While it may seem evident enough that there is only one way to describe such things as pagination in a book, the key issue is rather that both what information one includes or excludes (e.g. pagination) and the form in which that information is recorded are always dependent upon the purposes for which it is recorded. In an environment of automated data exchange, either we have to be satisfied with whatever we do and do not get, no matter for whom or for what purposes it was created, or we have to have a human being examine, evaluate and adapt that information to our particular purposes."
"Should continuing resources cataloging standards change to accommodate greater use of non-library data? Again, the wrong question. Let us ask instead: What is the best way in which we can use non-library data to accomplish our goals? The problem with the original question is that the assumption is that non-library data fits the library's needs and purposes and it is the library that needs to change, not the data."
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