Six Years of Tracking MARC Usage
We have been tracking the use of the MARC standard, as evidenced in WorldCat records (now well over 400 million!) for six years. Not only have we reported on how …
Read MoreAuthor: Roy Tennant
“MARC Must Die” 15 Years On
Fifteen years ago to the day I declared that “MARC Must Die” in Library Journal. It sparked a firestorm of criticism, mostly from the cataloging community, and several invitations to …
Read More
Making a Book Open Access at HathiTrust.org
About thirteen years ago I compiled six years worth of my monthly “Digital Library” columns published by Library Journal, and edited, updated, and collected them into chapters that Library Journal …
Read More
MARC: The Neck Pillow of Bibliographic Data
Now that I have your attention with that bizarre title, let me explain. Recently I gave a keynote talk at the IATUL Annual Conference in Bolzano, IT. Since I had …
Read More
Is Library IT on the Margins?
Recently Ithaka S+R published an Issue Brief entitled “Finding a Way from the Margins to the Middle: Library Information Technology, Leadership, and Culture,” by Dale Askey and Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe. …
Read More
Five Years of Revealing How MARC is Used
This October it will be 15 years since I wrote the oft-cited “MARC Must Die” column for Library Journal. At the time I took a lot of heat for that sentiment …
Read More
Data Designed for Discovery
I’ve been talking about linked data for so long that I can’t remember when I first began. I was actually a skeptic at first, as I was struggling to see …
Read More
“Ground Truthing” MARC
Although the thought was revolutionary back in 2002, librarians now widely recognize that our metadata requirements have outgrown the MARC standard. After 50 years of service it’s time to make …
Read More
The Top 20 Assigned College Texts
The Open Syllabus Project aggregates college syllabi and analyzes the data to provide a variety of ways to explore the data held within. Their stated goal is to provide “a …
Read More
The Books Shackleton Took to Antarctica
As was recently reported, the Royal Geographic Society in London digitized a photograph that was taken in 1915 of Sir Ernest Shackelton’s Antarctic library by Frank Hurley. They were then …
Read More