My experience has been that most libraries (in the U.S. at
least)
utilize MARC records. By "the library world" I
meant "libraries in
general," not some monolithic group (though it might
have been more
appropriate to limit it to U.S. libraries).
Jesse Ephraim
Youth Services Librarian
Southlake Public Library
1400 Main Street, Suite 130
Southlake, TX 76092
(817) 748-8248
jephraim ci.southlake.tx.us <mailto:jephraimci.southlake.tx.us>
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From: Bill Drew [mailto:bill.drewgmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 7:51 AM
To: Jesse Ephraim
Cc: web4libwebjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Re: The Ultimate Debate: Do Libraries
Innovate?"
One problem with this type of statement:
"My biggest pet peeve with library technology is MARC
records - until
the
library world is ready to move to a non-archaic form of data
storage, I
doubt that much will improve."
It implies that there is one world wide monolithic group or
organization
known as "the library world." It is much more
complicated than that.
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On 6/26/07, Jesse Ephraim <JEphraimci.southlake.tx.us>
wrote:
I'm also very interested in finding out how the
"Ultimate Debate" went.
I was a professional programmer for almost a decade, so I
tend to have
pretty strong feelings about the technical side of library
innovation.
My biggest pet peeve with library technology is MARC records
- until the
library world is ready to move to a non-archaic form of data
storage, I
doubt that much will improve. If anyone went to the event,
was that
discussed?
Jesse Ephraim
Youth Services Librarian
Southlake Public Library
1400 Main Street, Suite 130
Southlake, TX 76092
(817) 748-8248
jephraimci.southlake.tx.us
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