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September 8, 2007
How many cataloguers are there in the Essex public library service?
I asked the question below -and got no answer. Does anybody know? It's important that we get to the bottom of this expenditure on replicated re-cataloguing of books that have already been catalogued
I am not alone in calling for efficiencies in all these matters--- here is Alastair Johnston of SCILIP (MacSyrup) gritting his teeth in a public speech on the same subject:
" I would equally argue however that there is no need for this (book-in-hand cataloguing) to be done hundreds of times across Scotland. Tim Coates [and I can't believe I'm saying this] is right - but not completely – there is duplication and there are inefficiencies within our services – as there are throughout local government and across the public sectors. "
Does the fact that 'there are inefficiencies throughout local government and across the public sector' excuse those in senior position who do nothing about them-- or, perhaps, does it make it worse as they all obviously know about them ?
Posted by Tim Coates at September 8, 2007 10:21 AM