MarcEdit: Past, Present, & Future

The ALCTS Cataloging & Metadata Management Section (CaMMS) and the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) co-sponsored the forum “MarcEdit: Past, Present, and Future” at the 2019 ALA Annual Conference. The forum celebrated the twentieth anniversary of MarcEdit, a tool used by library workers to edit, create, and manipulate library metadata. Terry Reese, the creator of the MarcEdit, spoke to a packed room on the tool’s creation, development, and future directions. He was joined by Mike Monaco from the University of Akron Libraries and Bryan Baldus from OCLC, who presented on their individual use of the tool at their institutions.

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