Rachel Nimmo
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Reposted by Rachel Nimmo
'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'
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"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
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June 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'
Spent most of the day working on role profiles every time a scroll past this a little bit of me dies inside. The more libraries use this, which they will because of cuts to dedicated cataloging posts, the more bad records will go back into systems for copy cataloging and the cycle will repeat.
December 6, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Spent most of the day working on role profiles every time a scroll past this a little bit of me dies inside. The more libraries use this, which they will because of cuts to dedicated cataloging posts, the more bad records will go back into systems for copy cataloging and the cycle will repeat.