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| Author: | Bade, D. |
| Title: | Colorless green ideals in the language of bibliographic description: making sense and nonsense in libraries |
| Journal: | Language & Communication
2007 : JAN, VOL. 27:1, p. 54-80 |
| Index terms: | bibliography data bases languages libraries linguistics |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Cataloguing in libraries was formerly done by cataloguers with a wide range academic back-grounds and linguistic abilities. With the rise of networked databases much of this work is now automated, outsourced to vendors, or done by persons lacking the requisite skills. The removal of this activity from libraries leads to a generic product produced for a generic user, with no possibility for a library-internal evaluation of the product. Librarians demand "a bibliographic record" of a certain form is correct, it is not evaluated for appropriateness or usefulness. The resulting information is often equivalent to colorless green ideas. |
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