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Reading subsets of survey responses again. It’s fascinating when people are like “Alma is only good for the catalogers” or “FOLIO is good for the catalogers.”

My siblings in Ranganathan, I assure you that over half my survey respondents are catalogers and they would disagree.

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rowmyboat
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If FOLIO is good for anyone, it’s the electronic resource managers. DEFINITELY not the catalogers.
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Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]
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@rowmyboat yeah the response that prompted this was Acq complaining about catalogers having FOLIO easy. But shortly before, Reference doing the same thing re Alma.
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Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]
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@rowmyboat this person will fight you by the bike racks.

It’s a really interesting part of reading these very human and personal responses to stuff. Even the same experience of “we’re all back to square one” (I think from the same institution based on systems/dates) led one person to say “I feel like I’ve lost decades of competence” and another to be like “FINALLY as the new kid I’m not behind everyone else.”

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rowmyboat
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it could be ok for the public services librarians/subject liaisons IF THEY WOULD BOTHER TO USE IT
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@Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵] One of the scams I see so often inside Big Tech is "oh, this thing you're being forced to use is for [someone else]". If you convince everyone it's good for someone else, you can sell to everyone because you can't miss out on the Industry Standard you hate, but someone else needs it.
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Anna L. Creech, MLIS 🏳️‍🌈
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After a decade of an antiquated system that didn't work for anyone, but especially not acquisitions/eresources, I've been soooooo happy with Alma. Sure, the learning curve was rough and I didn't like being incompetent for a while, but now that I've developed some expertise, the workflow experience and power of the system makes so many aspects of my job easier. I have automated reports doing things it would take hours to do manually in the past!
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Have switched to the subset of responses of people who are higher-level happy about new features (nearly 2x! the sad ones): absolute MVP of this batch is the person who began their textual explanation with “Fucking being able to…”

Ah yes, I know that feel

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