Week6 Reading Note

In his article, Librarians and their vendors have created a tougher world for themselves, with interoperability the only solution, Andrew Pace addresses that ‘interoperability in library automation is more myth than reality’. Why does he express a negative opinion about interoperability even though everyone works for it? I dare suggest the answer of this question that we are all obsessed by delusion that we should be an early adopter in digital technology not to be a failure. As I read more articles about the library system, I think that we need some agreement on the speed of accepting new technology in the library system. The library is a public facility for providing information, not a fair for introducing new technology. Nevertheless, a current library administration applies the newest technology without verification process, and then, moves to newer technology rapidly. From the view of a patron, this trend is not appropriate economically. I suggest that a library system should consider between what it can offers and what its patrons want.