[Web4lib] Re: The Ultimate Debate: Do Libraries Innovate?"

[Bill Drew]

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 <JEphraim at ci.southlake.tx.us> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Jesse Ephraim
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> Southlake Public Library
> 1400 Main Street, Suite 130
> Southlake, TX  76092
> (817) 748-8248
> jephraim at ci.southlake.tx.us
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