Marshall Breeding
Marshall Breeding is the Director for Innovative Technologies and Research for the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University.
In my position at the Vanderbilt, I have a variety of responsibilities related to the strategic use of technology in the library system. I am a member of the Strategy and Planning Council, the Digital Library Steering Committee, the Metadata Committee.
I am the Executive Director of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, providing administration of the unit's budget and staff and am responsible for developing a self-sustaining business plan. I designed and developed much of the technology used by the Archive, including the database of news abstracts, the e-commerce system for placing requests for videotape loans, and large-scale digital recording system for capturing news broadcasts. I have been the principal investigator for a grant from the National Science Foundation, and two grants funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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I Maintain lib-web-cats and Library Technology Guides Web sites.
My Systems Librarian column appears monthly in Computers in Libraries published by Information Today. I am a Contributing Editor for Smart Libraries Newsletter published by ALA TechSource and have written six issues of Library Technology Reports. For the last six years I have written the annual Automated System Marketplace feature for Library Journal.