Parsing MARC Directory Info

I expected a record that looked like this:
LEADER 00000nas 2200000Ia 4500
001 18971047
008 890105c19079999mau u p 0uuua0eng
010 07023955 /rev
040 DLC|cAUG
049 PSMM
050 F41.5|b.A64
090 F41.5|b.A64
110 2 Appalachian Mountain Club
245 [...]

OPAC Web Services Should Be Like Amazon Web Services

No, I’m not talking about the interface our users see in the web browser — there’s enough argument about that — I’m talking about web services, the technologies that form much of the infrastructure for Web 2.0.
Once upon a time, the technology that displayed a set of data, let’s say catalog records, was inextricably [...]