The document discusses the challenges of transitioning between different metadata schemas and standards such as MARC21, MARCXML, MODS, METS, EAD, AACR2 and RDA. It questions whether someone can easily distinguish between different metadata fields and classes, and expresses a wish that the person it's addressing was there to assist during these transitions between old and new standards that remove familiar comforts. It closes by lamenting the cataloging of the same books year after year.

1. Wish you were here A song of comfort http://www.flickr.com/photos/tylluan/6669499/ INTRO

2. So, so you think you can tell MARC21 hell From MARCXML. Can you tell A MARC field From a class in DC? MODS from METS from EAD? Do you think you can tell?

3. And did they get you to trade AACR2 For the new RDA? What kind of sucker are you? Old comfort for change? And did you exchange The place that once made you proud For a small spot in the cloud?

5. How I wish, how I wish you were here. We’re two Library Zones With interlibrary loans URM dear! Cataloguing the same old books How stupid that looks Year after year URM dear...

6. URM