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

[Jesse Ephraim]

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

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From: Bill Drew [mailto:bill.drew at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 7:51 AM
To: Jesse Ephraim
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.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 <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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