Wow, it is not easy to read an entire book on cataloging! I love to catalog and miss it now that I have no time at all in my schedule for it. I have realized, however, that apparently I am quite spoiled by SAILS Workflows cataloging software. The cataloging interface presented is at a much higher level than the fields and individual character settings and the punctuation I just read about in Catalog It!. All this in a broad survey book for school library media specialists. I can only imagine what the 14 week courses in cataloging are like!
High level interfaces are wonderful things; such as being able to blog and create wikis with ease, not having to learn all the HTML code supporting it... or catalog new records without being aware of every field and MARC format underneath!
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Ooh, I love the term "high level interfaces"! They really have added an ease to our job that was unheard of 20 years ago!
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