Revenge of the librarians

/ Claudio Gnoli --> "Faceted classification discussion"

""" [Danny Ayers]
I think a big part of the problem may be that there's been 
material in the media for a few years with web services 
as "the answer", even "the *only* answer", which keeps 
attention away from semantic aspects. Problem is, no-one 
really bothers to frame the question...
"""

Indeed: years of users coming into the library and asking 
us "so where is the search engine?" -- instead of "the online
catalog" -- are the reason why librarians feel a need of 
revenge :-))

But I think the process already began in the 80s, when 
computers came massively into libraries, so that attention 
got away from indexing problems to softwares: not
surprisingly, indexing theory has had few advancements 
after that. So the question (at least in Italy) is also how 
to wake up librarians and make them aware that the revenge 
is behind the corner...

Saluti!



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