We were snobs in probably some of the worst ways, and some of that still exists. I think this subject isn't brought out in the record. We still do a fair amount of that kind of work, but we're getting better and raising the level of trust in the decisions of others. One of the things that is key to this program is that the records created by Program participants are coded in such a way that they can and should be accepted with a higher level of trust. We have always held the Library of Congress cataloging in high regard, so much so that some cataloging units in our libraries would just accept Library of Congress with virtually no review at all.
Values play a role as a motivating force.
What we've learned in the last four years I think is the role of values as a motivating force for catalog librarians. Catalog librarians have focussed on that part of the work that they found most satisfying. We had for many years in libraries a training style that rewarded perfection and agonizing over those little details, and in fact we created huge departments of catalog librarians, very highly trained, who cataloged along the same ideas. We're having some success there and in fact what we've done is really to change the ground rules for cataloging in the last ten years, and maybe even more so in the last five years. Our expectations of our professionals have changed dramatically.