Download or read book UNIMARC & Friends: Charting the New Landscape of Library Standards written by Marie-France Plassard and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-12-19 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the expansion of the World Wide Web during the last decade, libraries and their standards face an ever-complex environment, with new types, genres and forms of information resources. Changing information network structures and the emergence of new retrieval methods all play their roles. A three day conference was held in Lisbon, Portugal in March 2006, in order to review the current state of bibliographic standards and to discuss a number of questions in charting a future for their development.