About the name

Apologies to anyone and everyone called Marc. This site is not about you. It's about a bunch of library metadata standards collectively known as MARC.

The name is taken from a 2002 article by Roy Tennant, with his permission.

The name is deliberately chosen to be attention-grabbing, outrageous and inflammatory. If the site manages to attract a community of contributors, that community may choose another name at any time. If we can come up with an alternative to MARC, naming it after that alternative might be nice.

Proposed alternative names

 * MARC Alternatives Eventually
 * MARC Alternatives Implemented
 * MARC Alternatives Rant Collective (Recursive acronym!)
 * MARC is killing libraries
 * Who needs MARC?