TENNANT: A FEW WORDS NEVER TO SAY AGAIN

摘要

LJ blogger Roy Tennant and his Twitter followers recently came up with a short list of "words that in our opinion long ago outlived their usefulness, especially in a digital library realm, but that we still can't seem to shake." A few examples:rn"OPAC: Some days I think I will die a happy man if I never, ever hear this again…. OPAC stands for Online Public Access Catalog. Why, pray tell, the 'public access' bit? Because in the very earliest days, most automation systems in libraries were back room affairs.