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# Implications of MARC Tag Usage on Library Metadata Practices Working Group ## Mission The Implications of MARC Tag Usage on Library Metadata Practices Working Group was set up to help us move forward on the RLG Programs Gather Evidence to Inform Changes Needed in Metadata Practices project. The group will draw inferences from WorldCat MARC tag statistics that would affect library metadata practices—or what other evidence we need to gather to make those inferences. The group is expected to propose recommendations that would make MARC metadata creation practices in research libraries more efficient and effective. Users of MARC data are defined broadly into three categories: end users who want access to materials for which MARC records serve as surrogates; information professionals who may have other needs for resource control and management; systems and system developers who exploit the data. The group may also come to some conclusions, as Bill Moen has suggested, about the types of elements we need to "move forward" into other "future bibliographic record metadata schemes". ## Roster
Name | Institution
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Catherine Argus | National Library of Australia
John Chapman | University of Minnesota
Naun Chew | University of Minnesota
Peter Hirsch | New York Public Library
Paul Priebe | University of California, Los Angeles
Lisa Rowlison de Ortiz | University of California, Berkeley
Hugh Taylor | University of Cambridge
Mary Beth Weber | Rutgers University
This working group is staffed by RLG Program Officer Karen Smith-Yoshimura. |
For more information Karen Smith-Yoshimura Program Officer smithyok@oclc.org