Oral history interview with Barbara E. Markuson 1988
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Barbara E. Markuson : oral history, 1984; Oral history of Barbara E. Markuson, 1984
Abstract
Association with Information Systems Office of Library of Congress [Library], 1961; early history of library automation: sense of urgency with beginning Machine Readable Cataloging [MARC] pilot program; origin, research, and implementation of MARC: fear of automation; low interest in standardization of data fields; growing control of technical staff over MARC project; poor integration of MARC proje ct with operations of Library; MARC's overshadowing of automation on local levels of library systems; Library's use of conference format; questions of technical jargon in development of specifications for support programming; experimentation withy and analysis of data fields; recollections of contributors to MARC.
Women librarians; Librarians; Libraries--Automation; MARC formats; Cooperative cataloging; Information storage and retrieval systems; Markuson, Barbara Evans; Library of Congress
Interviewed by James E. Fall on November 11, 1988.
Digitized from analog recordings: Original available in the Columbia Center for Oral History, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries
Note (Provenance)
Barbara E. Markuson, Gift 1991
Note (Copyright)
Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1991.