Ian Haydock wrote:
> People from outside libraries tend
> to be very frustrated by the complexity of library systems (or maybe
> just libraries!), which in turn limit integration with other systems,
> while possibly being unaware of the fact that much of this complexity
> has been added to meet the demands of library users.
I understand some of this.
Currently we have a conventional library catalogue system and, separately, a bibliographic database system. Bibliographic reference data, index terms and so on are typed into each independently; index terms come from separate controlled lists evolved for different purposes; and the systems are searched separately. We would like a system to bring it all together, so data entry happens once and searching covers both library content and the database.
Backwards compatibility is just one of the problems.
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