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Ringnalda on Libraries

Completely unrelated: Slashdot : Libraries are 31337 . Damn right. – Phil Ringnalda

MARC Must Not Die

LJ has the article MARC Must Die by Roy Tennant. He says that the numbered tags are a problem. I like to think of them as language independent. He suggests that XML may be a replacement. However, XML records are very much larger and XML only specifies the carrier not the tags and content of [...]

Thinking of Librarians

From the spinster librarian in It’s a Wonderful Life to the crochety archivist in Attack of the Clones, librarians are often portrayed (in everything from movies, musicals, children’s books, literature, science fiction, comics and cartoons to pornography – yes, pornography) as something less than noble or admirable. The perception of librarians has been a popular [...]