Arthur Schopenhauer is suggested to have said:
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is violently opposed, in the third is regarded as self-evident.
If the reaction to Karen Calhoun’s report to the Library of Congress on The Changing Nature of the Catalog and [...]
Posted July 30, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy. Tags: cataloging changes, discovery tools, Karen Calhoun, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library of congress, loc, Melvil Dewey, progress, reform, series authority records. 2 Comments.
In a Washington Post column last week, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington proposed A Library for The New World:
[T]he time may be right for our country’s delegation to consider introducing to the [UNESCO] a proposal for the cooperative building of a World Digital Library. This would offer the promise of bringing people closer together [...]
Posted December 1, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy. Tags: cultural values, international relations, james billington, james h billington, librarian of congress, libraries, library, library of congress, loc, washington post, world, world library, world politics. Be the first one.
