Book People Archive

Re: LC Convenes Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control



john said:
>    I'd hate to see a potentially useful subject description mechanism 
>    (and one that libraries have put over 100 years of work into)
>    thrown overboard prematurely just because the tools that 
>    libraries have provided to work with it have been so bad.

i won't comment either way about subject indexing, but
aren't there a bundle of contradictions in that sentence?

-bowerbird