Cataloging Continued

After continued reading about cataloging, there is a part of me that thinks that I should go apologize to the librarian that replaced me in my previous position. I now know that I did not always put in all of the important information, or catalog the equipment properly. Who knew that all of those fields were so important! I could always find what I was looking for, so I assumed that it was ok. I now realize that I used to be a librarians worst nightmare. Luckily for my new district, I now know that all of those fields are important. The program that they used, Winnebago Spectrum, never really showed me the Marc Records. There was just a fill in the blank screen and I filled in some of the blanks, but never all of the blanks. Maybe they should have had a little red asterisk next to the fields that were very important like on websites. This would have helped me out and made it so that future librarians in that school would not be cursing me as much as they are now. This also can be used as an example of why school libraries need certified librarians working in them instead of paraprofessionals or volunteers. If I only knew then what I know now.