LibrePlanet: Conference/2009/OpenConferenceSchedule/schoolnlib

Schools and Libraries

With Thomas Dukleth, Ben Weissman and Nicole Willson

The card catalogue is essentially a library, bibliographic material with the authors

the complexity of libraries led to a very complicated indexing, with long and detailed standards. Using the MARC format which was designed when storage space was precious.

But now! there is some internal support this MARC format.

Libraries use microsoft because the main branches decide, so it's not up to librarians.

Digitization services of archived stuff, how these things are scanned in

Integration of ref works

Zotero is free software that works with Mozilla used for managing and organizing citations