{"product_id":"9780838908631","title":"Putting XML to Work in the Library: Tools for Improving Access and Management","description":"Optimize information access across platforms, vendors, andthroughout your library! Offering the advantages of both control and flexibility, the authors show how librarians using XML can begin to selectively impose control in the haphazard digital environment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXML, the language of the Web, is becoming the tool of choice to modernize the technical infrastructure in the information profession. XML champions Miller and Clarke argue that for dealing with content, metadata, and access issues, XML provides an elegant and useful solution. Offering a universal format for data and document exchange, XML addresses many shortcomings of Web access, but how and where should you start?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePutting XML to Work in the Library\u003c\/i\u003e offers complete answers to these questions, as the authors outline small proactive steps for libraries, illustrated with specific examples. This user-friendly roadmap outlines basic, practical applications of XML——Extensible Markup Language, derived from SGML.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt addresses such technical questions as:\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat is XML and why is it important?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e How can XML address libraries' technical challenges?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e When and how are style sheets and schemas used?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhere does XML come into play to strategically integrate with MARC and AACR data?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat makes for a \"well-formed\" XML document that conforms to XML rules of syntax?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eEmbrace XML standards and extend bibliographic control into new areas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor librarians working in systems, technical services, cataloging, and as webmasters, these are the tools you need to create more integrated solutions to organize and create access to information.  \u003cp\u003e  \u003cb\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eDick R. Miller\u003c\/b\u003e is the head of technical services at the Lane Medical Library at the Stanford University Medical Center. His extensive information systems experience led to his early promotion of using XML in libraries, notably in \"XML: Libraries' Strategic Opportunity,\" published in the summer 2000 issue of \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal NetConnect.\u003c\/i\u003e In addition he led in the development of XOBIS, an experimental schema for bibliographic and authority information and has advocated an XML replacement for MARC. Formerly, Miller was associate librarian at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. He has made a number of presentations on XML for groups such as ALA's MARBI\/CC:DA, the Medical Library Association, and most recently the FRBR Working Group of IFLA. He earned his MLS from the University of Oklahoma.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003cb\u003eKevin S. Clarke\u003c\/b\u003e is a digital information systems developer at Lane Medical Library at the Stanford University Medical Center. He was formerly a digital information systems programmer at Lane and a cataloging assistant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a co-presenter on \"XML for Librarians,\" a continuing education course at the Medical Library Association meeting in Florida in 2001 and wrote \"Updating MARC records with XMLMARC\" in \u003ci\u003eXML in Libraries.\u003c\/i\u003e He received an MSIS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"American Library Association","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015827570928,"sku":"9780838908631","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780838908631_p0.jpg?v=1763754661","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780838908631","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}