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 > ____________ > Scott Matheson, Associate Librarian for Technical Services > Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School > 203-432-1603 | Box 208326, New Haven, CT 06520-8326