Coyle's InFormation

 (NB: IANAL)   Because this is long, you can download it as a PDF here . From 2004 to 2016 the book world (authors, publishers, libraries, a...

Those of us in the library community are generally aware of our premier "designing woman," the so-called "Mother of MARC,...

I've been trying to capture what I remember about the early days of library automation. Mostly my memory is about fun discoveries in my ...

On March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive announced that it would "suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing) books in our lend...

If you learned the MARC format "on the job" or in some other library context you may have learned that the record is structured as...

I was always a bit confused about the inclusion of "pamflets" in the subtitle of the Decimal System, such as this title page from ...

The word " work " generally means something brought about by human effort, and at times implies that this effort involves some lev...