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

[Andrew Hankinson]

While I agree with you in principle regarding sweeping statements,  
MARC is one area where I think Jesse is spot on.  It is, for all  
intents and purposes, a monolith for 90% of libraries, and the other  
10% are still on card catalogues.


On 27-Jun-07, at 8:50 AM, Bill Drew wrote:

> 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:
>>
>> 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
>> jephraim at ci.southlake.tx.us
>>
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