id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 3159 Aveny, Brian Editorial: Tails Wagging Dogs 1981-03-01 1 .pdf application/pdf 377 28 58 many libraries believed they were developing or using automated systems to produce catalog cards, or order slips, or circulation control records. Libraries must relate their own machine-readable records to each relating and using records from different libraries, and even different A narrow view of the process of creating records has often resulted in introduction of nonstandard practices that provide the required immediate result, but create garbage in the data base. libraries have developed have outstripped their practices. are only now seriously addressing the practices they have used to create call number and holding fields, national standards have been late forthcoming, and libraries have often improvised. Not following recommended OCLC practice of fully updating the record at each use has created archive tapes requiring significant manual practices create dilemmas. While implementing systems in the present, libraries must keep a place on records being created today? ./cache/3159.pdf ./txt/3159.txt