ETL505 – Topic Two

 Information Retrieval Tools

Now I understand why librarians have outsourced this whole cataloguing and bibliographic description thing – if this made up the core of my work I don’t think I would be a teacher-librarian any more.

I have never really thought about why things are catalogued the way they are or how it was developed. For me, all I think about is ease of access to information.

And I guess that is the whole point of this unit…

But it is so dull.

I don’t need to know how or why it works as long as it does work.