Library of Congress Publishes Initial Plan for Bibliographic Framework Transition

摘要

Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress, has announced the release of the initial plan for LC's Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative. "The Working Group of the Future of Bibliographic Control, as it examined technology for the future, wrote that the Library community's data carrier, MARC, is 'based on 40-year-old techniques for data management and is out of step with programming styles of today'.