Message-Id: <199602071529.JAA27516@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 10:20:02 EST From: "M. Jessie Barczak" <mailto:jbarczak@MAIL.CASI.STI.NASA.GOV> Subject: Re: URLs To: Multiple recipients of list WEBCAT-L <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
John et al:
Should librarians become systems administrators? Do you think systems
administrators would become librarians?
What I mean is, consider what your library needs are. If there is a
unique need (and funding don't forget) to keep up with ever-changing
URLs and URNs, then by all means, forge a partnership for life with
your sysops.
However, if the library is only trying to capture new types of access
points in the cyberworld, don't dirty up your bib records by adding
URLs or URNs that may not stand the test of time.
How many times have you accessed a hyperlink or a web address only to
run into a brick wall (Error 404 message)?
MJB
M. Jessie Barczak
Head of Cataloging
NASA Center for AeroSpace Information
Baltimore, MD
mailto:jbarczak@sti.nasa.gov
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Subject: URLs
Author: WEBCAT-L LIST <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU> at smtplink-casi
Date: 2/7/96 9:42 AM
I think you're on the right track. If you're going to publish the URL
for that bib record, why not just the bib record? Doing the search
again could, if more items have been acquired, produce different
results, but depending on what you are really looking for that could
be good. Seems that if you've found the bib record it makes just as
much (if not more) sense to just save the citation, rather than the
URL.
--
John D. Boggs \ The great thing about human language is
Circulation Librarian & \ that it prevents us from sticking to
Associate System Administrator \ the matter at hand. -Lewis Thomas
Bush Memorial Library, Hamline University. mailto:jdboggs@piper.hamline.edu