>> 5. The data immediately becomes out-of-date, and increasingly stale with each passing day.
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> Also, the MARC output by your ILS is quite likely to be illegal invalid MARC which can't be read by many tools. At least if your ILS is my ILS. http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/structural-marc-problems-you-may-encounter/
But neither of these challenges mean that we shouldn't bother doing it at all!
Invalid MARC (which *can* be corrected, with effort) is better than no MARC.
Stale data is better than *no* data.
MJ
Received on Tue Mar 09 2010 - 12:10:24 EST