Catching up on tips gathered by my aggregation over the weekend, here are some new entries in my Furl.
In his essay “The Inevitable Gen X Coup,” Brian Mathews says that “MARC is dead.” I don’t think so. I think MARC is under-exploited. Add a touch of FRBR and some interconnection with user metadata, holdings information, and the like, and MARC is still a hugely viable and valuable source of information. It’s not MARC that’s dead, it’s the container we’re using to manipulate and display that bibliographic information. Well, I guess OPACs are “not dead yet” (as my favorite British comedians would say), but they’re moving in that direction.
(Cool! I just discovered FRBR has its very own blog!)
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Pegasus, that winged horse from mythology, combines the symbolic characteristics of those mythological figures most closely related to him: emotion from his father, Poseidon, wisdom from his protectress, Athena, creativity from his master, Zeus, and love from his nursemaid, the Muse Urania. He was also around the other Muses quite a lot, Perseus (known for his intellect), Bellerophon (known for his impudence), and Medusa (known for her wisdom, as well as her snake-ish hair… but that doesn’t seem to have worn off on Pegasus).
All of these things put together have generated quite a complex symbolic aura for Pegasus. There’s even a syndrome named after him! But my favorite symbolic concept places Pegasus at the point where innovation, creativity, wisdom, deliberation, and a healthy sense of humor intersect. That’s the place I’d like teachers, learners, and librarians to inhabit.
[posted edited 3/19/2019 to remove dead links]
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