Obnoxious Librarian from Hades Page 13
by Dennie Heye
[7] For non-librarians: Nancy Pearl is a famous librarian, who has her own action figure. Really.
[8] MARC – a data format to exchange data between library systems.
[9] ISBN – International Standard Book Number. Every published book in the world gets an ISBN so it can be identified.
[10] Z39.50 – a very technical term to indicate how clever librarians were to invent data exchange formats before the rest of the world thought of doing this.