On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Mike Taylor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> ... anyway, all of this is far, far away from the point.  MARC is old
> and ugly yes; but then so am I, and I get the job done, just like
> MARC.  That format is responsible for about 0.2% of our difficulties,
> and replacing it would make essentially no difference to anything that
> we actually care about.
>

The *encoding* however is responsible for about 20% of my difficulties.
MARC-8 should die...
--Joe