[ale] Linux in libraries (a heads-up for June 2002)

[Ben Ostrowsky]

>If using a standard database that supports ODBC or some other
>semi-standard network connection, it wouldn't really matter what the front
>end was written in/for - as long as it was simple for both the librarians
>and the patrons to use.

True.  However, the MARC standard is one of the most basic standards in the 
library world, as well-established as the Dewey Decimal system.  Most 
relational databases just can't do MARC without an awful lot of munging.

Ben

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