Subject: LC Working Group Report
Newsgroups: gmane.education.libraries.autocat
Date: 2008-01-09 17:21:53 GMT (46 weeks, 6 days, 14 hours and 22 minutes ago)
Dear all, The LC Working Group is on the brink of submitting its final report to LC. Please note that the final tally was more than 100 single-spaced pages of comments from the public about the draft. We all read every comment, and every single one was considered. Both arising from comments, and arising from the continuation of work we had already contemplated, the final report will contain some substantive changes from the draft, including some additional recommendations, and some modified recommendations. The report may be available prior to your leaving for ALA. If so, I urge you to read it, and as you discuss it with your colleagues, be sure that you are both referring to the final report rather than to the draft. Many comments had to do with people wishing or believing that the report was something that it is not. For example, the report is not an implementation plan, and so it did not contain recommendations regarding "how", "when", "in what order", and "with what money." Implementation comes AFTER the recommendation itself is accepted, and must be dealt with then. A newly-added executive summary contains some clarification about the scope and limitations of the report. Similarly, some comments were received about matters that are outside the WG charge (for example the status of LC as not a national library). In these cases, the WG did a "reality check", to determine whether indeed the matters did not belong in this report. Many comments were received that had the WG saying "didn't we say that?" or "we didn't say that, did we?" and comments such as these had us re-examining our wording to make sure that it adequately conveyed what we intended. Many thanks to everyone who took the time to read the draft and comment. Janet Swan Hill, Professor Associate Director for Technical Services University of Colorado Libraries, CB184 Boulder, CO 80309 janet.hill@... ***** Tradition is the handing-on of Fire, and not the worship of Ashes. - Gustav Mahler *********************************************************************** E-mail AUTOCAT listowners: autocat-request@... Search AUTOCAT archives: http://listserv.syr.edu/archives/autocat.html Selected AUTOCAT commands: http://www.cwu.edu/~dcc/Autocat/options.html By posting messages to AUTOCAT, the author does not cede copyright ***********************************************************************