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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • Friday Followups: RDA Revolt and Cable TV vs. Internet Streaming

    It has been another busy week, and unfortunately Thursday has slipped into Friday. There have been a few updates to earlier Thursday Threads items, so I'm turning this into "Friday Followups" instead. We'll attempt to get back new items next Thursday, but in the meantime take a look at these …

     Posted on  December 10, 2010
     and last updated December 10, 2010
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • MARC isn't Dead, but it is a Dead End

    This week I sat in on the first of the three "Using RDA: Moving into the Metadata Future" webinars being hosted by ALA. This one was hosted by Karen Coyle with the title New Models of Metadata where she talked about library-specific efforts such asRDA and FRBR as well …

     Posted on  October 29, 2010
     and last updated October 29, 2010
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Who Said You Couldn't Catalog the Internet?

    I seem to remember, in the early heady days of the internet, there was a cry from the library profession to "Catalog the Internet" -- to create descriptive records and controlled vocabularies for every resource out there deemed useful. The early Yahoo!, with a librarian on the staff, was going to …

     Posted on  June 06, 2006
     and last updated June 06, 2006
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • The Problem with MARC and AACR: the World Doesn't Disco Anymore

    My undergraduate background is in computer science, and from that perspective I have a great deal of admiration for MARC and AACR as well as their creators and proponents: Henriette Avram and Michael Gorman. At their creation, MARC and AACR propelled library services to new heights of efficiency and usefulness …

     Posted on  May 16, 2006
     and last updated May 16, 2006
     ·  5 minutes reading time