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This example of the Welsh Government's library creating Marc records for tweets stored in PDF form seems like a classic example of library workers' thoughts on processes and workflows being stymied by bad systems and standards infotoday.eu/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Archiving-and-preserving-tweets-using-a-Library-Management-System--126129.aspx
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Preserving tweets is not an inherently bad idea. But the process they were forced into because they wanted to work within the Soutron LMS and within the parameters of Marc standards is a batshit way to store structured data.
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Libraries adjust their processes and their workflows to fit their systems and standards when we should be changing our systems and standards to fit our processes.
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In our book chapter on critical systems librarianship, @preater and I interrogate some of these power dynamics between systems suppliers and libraries eprints.rclis.org/32467/