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100 1 Bade, David W.
245 10 Responsible librarianship :|blibrary policies for
unreliable systems /|cby David Bade.
260 Duluth, Minn. :|bLibrary Juice Press,|cc2007.
300 1 online resource (xv, 172 p.) :|bill.
505 0 Politics and policies for database qualities -- Letter to
Autocat concerning LC's series treatment decision, May 31,
2006 -- Structures, standards and the people who make them
meaningful.
520 These papers examine library policies and organizational
structures in light of the literature of ergonomics, high
reliability organizations, joint cognitive systems and
integrational linguistics. Bade argues that many policies
and structures have been designed and implemented on the
basis of assumptions about technical possibilities,
ignoring entirely the political dimensions of local
determination of goals and purposes as well as the lessons
from ergonomics, such as the recognition that people are
the primary agents of reliability in all technical
systems. Because libraries are understood to be loci of
human interaction and communication rather than purely
technical systems at the disposal of an abstract user,
Bade insists on looking at problems of meaning and
communication in the construction and use of the library
catalog. Looking at various policies for metadata creation
and the results of those policies forces the question: is
there a responsible human being behind the library web
site and catalog, or have we abandoned the
responsibilities of thinking and judgment in favor of
procedures, algorithms and machines?
650 0 Machine-readable bibliographic data|xQuality.
650 0 Online library catalogues|xQuality.
650 0 Cataloging|xQuality control.
650 0 Library catalog management.
650 0 Cataloging errors.
650 0 Bibliography|xMethodology.
650 0 Online bibliographic searching|xEvaluation.
650 0 Library cooperation.
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