Cutting cataloguing budgets and support year after year and retirement after retirement is hurting the library in the long run and burning out the staff that remains. We need time and resources to learn the new models and standards at the same time we do our day to day work. This is work that now takes a bit longer to do - but in the long run we are making better records. The new linked data models have the potential for revolutionizing the services and information libraries can provide for their users and keep libraries relevant in an increasingly web-based information environment.

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"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

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"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

- William James

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"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

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