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align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">April 21, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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align="center"><span class="GramE"><span class="grame"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">4casting technologies that could have an
impact on public libraries.</span></i></span></span><span class="grame"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></h1>
<p
style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The
MARC records for Learning Express Library and EBSCO have recently been
updated so that they can be added to your<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="SpellE">OPACs</span>.
You can find them and records for other statewide databases on the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.oplin.org/marc-records" target="_blank"
style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">OPLIN web page.</a></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Here
is an interesting article about people and technology working together
to catalog the books of the world. From<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2010/04/library-is-machine.html"
target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">The
Library IS the Machine</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>:
"The problem that Google's machines are having with these records is
that the descriptions have always been meant for humans to read, not
for computers to parse and understand."</li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a
href="http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/04/05/news-from-dublin-oh-new-records-for-items-in-the-google-books-and-hathi-trust-digital-collections-now-being-added-to-worldcat/"
target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">New
MARC Records for Items in the Google Books &<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="SpellE">Hathi</span><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Trust Digital Collections Being
Added to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="SpellE">WorldCat</span></a></li>
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style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Sources
for free MARC records: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://biblios.net/" target="_blank"
style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><br>
biblios.net<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a><a
href="http://catalog.loc.gov/" target="_blank"
style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><br>
Library of Congress Catalog</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://authorities.loc.gov/" target="_blank"
style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><br>
Library of Congress Authorities</a></li>
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style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a
href="http://www.loc.gov/marc/" target="_blank"
style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">MARC Standards
Office</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at the Library of
Congress has<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span
class="GramE">general</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>MARC
information, MARC formats, tools, development, and optional<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="SpellE">listservs</span>.</li>
</ul>
<p
style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><i>Cool
link<span class="GramE">:</span></i></b><br>
Just for fun: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.archive.org/details/MARCTHULU" target="_blank"
style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">"MARC Horrors"</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[video]</p>
<p
style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The
first part of the video to whet your interest:<span> </span></p>
<p
style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“Deep
within the bowels of systems on the Horizon<span class="GramE">,</span><br>
Of systems from beyond the Millennium,<br>
Of systems known only to small aliens as V-<span class="SpellE">ger</span><br>
We see the signs of MARC records –</p>
<p
style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">MARC
records that should not be —<br>
MARC records with control characters in the leaders –<br>
MARC records that require 25 characters per tag and yet have no
indicators —<br>
MARC records that although apparently valid, have two 245 tags –<br>
And syntaxes and obsolete fields that have not existed since time
beyond memory —<br>
Since eons beyond which were known….”</p>
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