Books

Brian Cluff wrote:
>
> Yup, the marc standard is incedible.... I never realized there was that
> much information about books... although I guess its ment to categorize
> just about anything that a library might end up carrying.
>
> I would definatly like to see it get done, but like you, at least in the
> near future, I won't be able to even think about starting it.
>
> I would definatly like to see it developed in such a way that it isn't
> integrated too much into anything so that any project could pick it up and
> use it. I would definatly like to see a lot more free library software
> being used.

as someone else mentioned, we really do not need MARC. Any software
that supports a taged field DB interface should work. Worst case we
have to type in the citations...

So we should be able to get it up with little or nothing.

EBo --