[Sca-cooks] What is STC NOT good on?

[A F Murphy]

Why wouldn't there be librarians who dislike the tools of their
profession? I'm a theatrical costumer who doesn't like to sew... a
designer who doesn't like to draw.  You don't need to like the tools
(though life is certainly easier if you do...) You just need to know how
to use those tools to accomplish what you do want to do.

And I do want to know what you are talking about, and I can't get to
Ontario... you should know by now that I want to know how to find things
out!

Anne

johnna holloway wrote:

>No, No, No, it's not nasty. It's an acquired taste.
>You can't let the public in on the secret that there
>are librarians who dislike the tools of their profession.
>It's not right. What will people think of us?
>
>Besides STC is much better than what the profession had
>at the turn of last century when it was book catalogues
>all around the world. What is most frustrating is the fact
>that we have all these made up numbers for the variants that
>have now been deleted from the ESTC and there are no entries
>saying so. That's frustration. And UMI filmed so many variants
>that it's not funny reconciling those either.
>
>Johnnae  llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway
>(if anyone wants to know what we are talking about, you are most welcome
>to attend my session on Elizabethan Printed Cookbooks in Everton,
>Ontario.)
>
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