Marshall Breeding

Creator and Editor, Library Technology Guides

Marshall Breeding

Marshall Breeding

Marshall Breeding is an independent consultant, speaker, and author. He is the creator and editor of and the libraries.org online directory of libraries on the Web. His monthly column appears in Computers in Libraries; he is the Editor for , published through Library Technology Guides. From 2002 through 2021 he was the editor and contributor for published by the American Library Association, and has authored the annual published in American Libraries since 2014 and in Library Journal from 2002-2013. He has authored fourteen issues of ALA's Library Technology Reports, and has written many other articles and book chapters. Marshall has edited or authored eight books. He regularly teaches workshops and gives presentations at library conferences on a wide range of topics.

He has been an invited speaker for many library conferences and workshops throughout the United States and internationally. He has spoken in throughout the United States and in Canada, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, China, Singapore, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Ireland, Turkey, Greece, the United Kingdom, India, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, and Argentina.

Marshall Breeding held a variety of positions for the in Nashville, TN from 1985 through May 2012, including as Director for Innovative Technologies and Research as the Executive Director the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.

Breeding was the 2010 recipient of the LITA LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication for Continuing Education in Library and Information Science. He is a co-founder of the NISO Open Discovery Initiative. NISO commissioned Breeding to author a white paper on The Future of Library Resource Discovery.

As an independent consultant, Breeding has conducted projects for all types of libraries. Selected organizations include New York Public Library, Hong Kong Public Library, Yale University, Harvard University, Joint Bank-Fund Library of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP), Library of Congress, San Diego County Public Library, Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango (Bogotá, Colombia), Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, National Library of Sweden, Univesity of California, Carnegie Mellon University, Cuyahoga County Public Library, University of Technology Sydney, JULAC (a consortium of the public universities in Hong Kong), Association of Southeastern Research Libraries, University of Auckland, Toronto Public Library, Markham Public Library, Arrowhead Library Consortium (Minnesota), American Printing House for the Blind, Kotui (national consortium of public libraries in New Zealand), University of South Carolina, State Library of New South Wales, Palo Alto City Library, University of Tasmania, and the University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions (USMAI).

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