Responsible Librarianship: Library Policies for Unreliable SystemsLibrary Juice Press, LLC, 14 mai 2014 - 193 pages The three papers in this volume were written in the wake of a single policy decision at the Library of Congress: the decision to cease the practice of distinguishing and collating series through the use of distinctive headings maintained in an authority file. 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. 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? |
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... requires thinking by library personnel . Neither requires any expensive professional work . Whether the needs of the library's users particularly academic and scholarly users are met by such processing procedures is irrelevant , because ...
... requires thinking by library personnel . Neither requires any expensive professional work . Whether the needs of the library's users particularly academic and scholarly users are met by such processing procedures is irrelevant , because ...
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... requires for its successful operation means nothing less than the breakdown of the system, the introduction and proliferation of inefficiencies, inadequacies and fail- ures. Most American libraries (and many others elsewhere) are now to ...
... requires for its successful operation means nothing less than the breakdown of the system, the introduction and proliferation of inefficiencies, inadequacies and fail- ures. Most American libraries (and many others elsewhere) are now to ...
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... requires proc- essing, storage, and distribution through information systems (Siau et al., 2001). ... Real-world practice suggests that D[ata]Q[uality] problems are becoming increasingly prevalent (Huang, Lee & Wang, 1999; Redman, 1998 ...
... requires proc- essing, storage, and distribution through information systems (Siau et al., 2001). ... Real-world practice suggests that D[ata]Q[uality] problems are becoming increasingly prevalent (Huang, Lee & Wang, 1999; Redman, 1998 ...
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... requires rigorous procedures and technologies to error-proof the collection processes, to assure information quality and techniques for analyz- ing less-than-optimum-quality information. (English, 2005, p.18) So apparently information ...
... requires rigorous procedures and technologies to error-proof the collection processes, to assure information quality and techniques for analyz- ing less-than-optimum-quality information. (English, 2005, p.18) So apparently information ...
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... requires an agent with a purpose , an agent who will be able to determine what is satisfactory and what is not . What are the implica- tions of defining quality as a social judgement ? Of having an ( unspeci- fied ) agent and an ...
... requires an agent with a purpose , an agent who will be able to determine what is satisfactory and what is not . What are the implica- tions of defining quality as a social judgement ? Of having an ( unspeci- fied ) agent and an ...
Table des matières
Letter to Autocat Concerning LCs Series Treatment | 109 |
AppendixHandout | 137 |
About the Author | 173 |
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academic analysis automated Banush biblio bibliographic control bibliographic databases bibliographic information bibliographic record brary browsing Calhoun cata cataloging class number classification communication complex context cooperation COR records Cornell correct created creation data mining database quality David Bade discussion Dörner Dublin Core electronic environment evaluation failure fixed fields Freon goals high reliability organizations Hollnagel and Woods human error indexing information quality information systems information technologies institution interpretation Joseph Regenstein judgement Karen Karl Weick keyword knowledge language librarians librarianship library administrators library catalogue library research library technical services library users library’s literature Marcum materials matter means metadata misinformation Mongol needs OCLC organizational outsourcing particular policies possible practices problem productivity purposes Regenstein Library requires retrieval Roy Harris scholarship shared databases social sources structures and standards subject heading task technical system tion understanding University Weick
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