From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 15:26:47 -0500

Every time you think that the world is going to hell in a handbasket,
you read something like this from Scott Matheson:

"Back to my title-by-title firm ordering...."

This fortifies me for the day.

Joe Esposito



On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 9:30 AM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: "Matheson, Scott" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 19:33:59 +0000
>
> This is provocative - and when I think about how I teach or do a
> reference transaction, I absolutely share my value judgements about
> sources with patrons. Why are we reluctant to "put out fingers on the
> scale" of discovery or catalog results? Never mind biases, I believe
> there are enough of us who think our collections are curated carefully
> enough that everything is "good." If it wasn't worth having, we
> wouldn't have selected it in the first place.
>
> But perhaps this warrants rethinking in the age of DDA, approval
> plans, big deals, and easy access to Worldcat where the library's
> "walled garden" is less expertly tended and indeed less walled. Put
> another way, perhaps librarians have unwittingly handed over these
> decisions to publishers/distributors on the "back end," in which case
> we should be more willing to communicate our judgements to our patrons
> on the "front end."
>
> Back to my title-by-title firm ordering....
> Scott
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> Scott Matheson, Associate Librarian for Technical Services
> Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School
> 203-432-1603 | Box 208326, New Haven, CT 06520-8326