[Motse] Who needs MARC? (CommonPlace.net, May 15)

[VanCura, MaryAnn]

Fyi-A posting that's generating a good amount of discussion.

Who needs MARC? <http://link.ixs1.net/s/lt?id=78757361&si=b137766062&pc=r2129&ei=s366336> 
Lukas Koster writes: "This week I had a nice chat with André Keyzer of the University of Groningen Library and Peter van Boheemen of Wageningen University Library (both in the Netherlands), who attended OCLC's Amsterdam Mashathon 2009. As can be expected from library technology geeks, we got talking about bibliographic metadata formats. The question came up: What on earth could be the reason for storing bibliographic metadata in exchange formats like MARC?"...
CommonPlace.net, May 15

From: American Libraries Direct, 5/20/09


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