This is what I love about the Web: from LibraryThing's blog, Thingology:
If you're at ALA in Anaheim, have nothing to do Sunday morning and are interested in the future of cataloging—and who isn't?—you might be interested in [...]I'm not interested in the future of cataloguing and I don't know anybody who is. But I can see there's a whole world of people who are, and that makes my world bigger and better too.
...Actually, maybe it makes my world smaller, or it puts it into larger context, with the effect of making it smaller. But what's not in dispute: it makes it better.
I'm thinking of the place my grandparents lived: physically similar to where I live now (they both grew up within 5 kilometres of where I'm writing) but so different in other ways. The people they knew and the things those people did dictated what could and should be done, and what could and should be hoped for. It was a small world with few options, but the people in it saw it as the whole universe.
Now we have so many options it's bewildering, and each person's world is so small in comparison to things going on beyond it, that... I've lost the plot of this post. That's a shame.
:)
But go those cataloguers. Rock on.
