What's so different about the net?

[Paul Neff, Internet Librarian]

> [ At this point the Big Glee Bopper turns straight toward his reading 
> audience and says ]
> _______________   ________________________________________
> |\-------------/| /					   \
> ||::::/   \::::||/  	Hey, web_4_libbers. Is anyone using \	  
> ||:::/     \:::|/	  this MARC Community Info standard  \  
> ||::( (o)(o))::||         for accessing folks??   	      \
> ||:::\  .. /:::||      					       \__		
> ||::::\ --/::::||         If not, how come?? Did those MARC folks \
> ||::::/\ /\::::||           create this standard for yet one more |
> ||:::/  ^  \:::||           rubber chicken lunch??		  |
> |/-------------\|						  |
> 		\        -- Confused in Bloomington as usual,     /
> 		 \		The Big Glee Bopper	        /
> 	          ----------------------------------------------

We use it here at KCPL... so do several other Kansas City-area libraries.
I guess we're more forward looking than we thought!	;-)

Paul Neff
Internet Librarian, Kansas City Public Library
paul at kcpl.lib.lib.mo.us