This week I sat in on the first of the three "Using RDA: Moving into the Metadata Future" webinars being hosted by ALA.  This one was hosted by Karen Coyle with the title New Models of Metadata where she talked about library-specific efforts such asRDA and FRBR as well as the linked data effort in the wider world of information.  There was a great deal of concern expressed in the chat window by participants about the future of cataloging, of cataloguers, and of MARC.  The latter brought up memories of Roy Tennant's "MARC Must Die" declaration.  My take away, though, isn't that MARC is dead as much as MARC is a dead end.