Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Machine readable My Friend Rob sent me an email with a link to a web log post which I'm turning around here: Librarian » Henriette Davidson Avram, 1917-2006. It notes the passing of this woman on April 22 and credits her with the introduction of the modern bibliographic record  MARC standards - Wikipedia. MARC  the ocean in which I drown daily. In these days of complete digital convergence MARC may not seem like much, but at the time it was developed - early sixties - it was a remar[c]able achievement. She was an honorary member of ALA, which hints that she may have been a database developer by profession not a librarian. Still what is appropriate, is a moment of silence. 10:35:09 AM    comment [];trackback [];

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