Databasing / by Brian Kunde

Databasing
by Brian Kunde

In merging data in a database,
It must be organized, to better sieve
The information that the searchers chase,
And from the mass of chaff the wheat retrieve.
It has to be amenable to search,
And winnow down the broadest of results,
Unless you’d leave your users in the lurch.
Too much found, like too little, just insults.
To manage people’s information needs
Is both our job and duty, to be sure.
We ease the way for everyone who reads;
For those who don’t, we haven’t any cure.
To pinpoint what you seek, on-line or bound,
It helps to have a database around.

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Databasing

from Bibliotec(hnic)a : Poems, Sep. 24, 2013.
An earlier version appeared in
SUL News Notes, v. 2, no. 21, May. 28, 1993.

1st web edition posted 5/15/2014.