Comments on: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love OCLC

By: Mr. Kat

Mr. Kat — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:59:38 +0000

There should be some kind of law against whining librarians. Let me guess, you work in a public library?

{~I'm Kat!}

By: Neelima

Neelima — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:47:40 +0000

I am Annoyed at my supervisor, who is so full of herself that she talks at you as she is walking down the aisle. It is not anything polite. She is just so rude in the way she barks at one, and sort of talks down as if we librarians are no more peons, just there for her to trample.
How do you tolerate and “grin and bear it” this kind of disrespect, year after year. I am just biding my time… But, no employee should have to put up with disrespectful treatment from his/her supervisor. There should be some kind of a law against these kinds of ongoing insults.

By: Alfr

Alfr — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:13:37 +0000

I am a cataloger and I don’t like catalogers. Of course I don’t like anyone, that is why I became a Librarian. Now, SHHHHHHHHHHHH

By: Darryl E.

Darryl E. — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:03:42 +0000

OCLC does as much good as bad. And nobody likes cataloguers except other cataloguers.

By: WebbyGrl

WebbyGrl — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:45:28 +0000

There are no Military librarians…in any of the services. You are correct that they are all Civil Servants now. But many are prior service and remember their battle skills. FWIW, I love the BCS model. One day when I’m in charge of my library, I will implement it. And while it is a medical library, I’m sure a picture of the Body Human on the front covers will pull in the readers.

By: Mr. Kat

Mr. Kat — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:15:00 +0000

Library Journal needs to get on the ball and upgrade. I guess they never had the circulation or public interest to learn about abusive comment posters!!!! And you neevr would have thought there was such a thing as combatant librarians!!!

Just watch, we'll now get a commetn in from some Military librarian who serves as a member of our military!! but then most of those positionas are all civlian now! Ha!

By: carptrash

carptrash — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:42:29 +0000

” The earlier posts made under this nickname in no way reflect my level of maturity.”
The above post was not by me. If there were a 12 year old in my family it would be my grandson and not my brother. Life. What a place to live. eeeek

By: Mr. Kat

Mr. Kat — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:04:44 +0000

The Internet world has learned that the best way to moderate is to have some of the posters do the moderation. Those people who LOVE being on the website and posting reviews, for example, are perfect. They do it for the self gratificaiton and because in some ways they are full of themselves and becasue they have nothing else to do.

So your library simply has to make their online user interaction [2.0 for the yuppies] website a really big thing and then identify key people who are matrue responsible adults - and then give them moderation power to hide the garbage posts. I say hide so if there is ever a dispute about moderator abuse, which DOES happen, there is a record.

By: jmo, mls

jmo, mls — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:47:01 +0000

*It’s not the quality of Amazon’s reveiws that is the issue here! It is the USER BASED FEEDBACK that is the issue!!

As in, THEY HAVE IT AND LIBRARIES DON’T!! *

More shouting and more inanities. Many libraries already allow user feedback on the items in their OPACs as well. Most libraries are so pitifully staffed that they’d have to hire someone to work 40 hours a week “removing” bad patron reviews or moderating each and every comment, most of which would be nothing but SHOUTING and “eeeeek”.

By: jmo, mls

jmo, mls — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:44:39 +0000

*So you can incorporate photographs of the books into your library database? SO WHY HAVEN’T YOU ALREADY DONE IT YET???* How do you know I haven’t? And put down the megaphone, for pete’s sake.