Oral history interview with William J. Welsh [electronic resource], 1988.

Biographical Note

Librarian.

Scope and Contents

Early development of Machine-readable Catalogue System [MARC], Library of Congress; key people involved in establishment and installation of MARC; conditions at Library of Congress and other libraries prior to MARC automation; effects of closing card catalog systems; introduction of foreign language cataloging.

Subjects

• Cataloging of foreign language publications.
• Fall, James E. interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Librarians--Interviews.
• Library of Congress.
• MARC formats.
• Machine-readable bibliographic data.
• Oral histories.
• Welsh, William J. (William Joseph), 1919-2012--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1990.