Marshall Breeding is the Director for Innovative Technologies and Research for the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University.

In his position at the Vanderbilt, he has a variety of responsibilities related to the strategic use of technology in the library system. He is a member of the Strategy and Planning Council, the Digital Library Steering Committee, and the Metadata Committee.

He is the Executive Director of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, providing administration of the unit’s budget and staff and is responsible for developing a self-sustaining business plan. He 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. He has been the principal investigator for a grant from the National Science Foundation, and two grants funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Marshall maintains lib-web-cats and Library Technology Guides Web sites.

His Systems Librarian column appears monthly in Computers in Libraries published by Information Today. He is a Contributing Editor for Smart Libraries Newsletter published by ALA TechSource and has written six issues of Library Technology Reports. For the last six years he has written the annual Automated System Marketplace feature for Library Journal.

Gang member for:

• May 2008: ILS API
• June 2008: Bolt-on OPACs
• July 2008: ALA - Anaheim
• August 2008: Open Source Systems
• September 2008: System Procurement
• October 2008: Financial Crisis
• November 2008: APolicy – OCLC & Google Book Search
• February 2009: Google books and libraries
• March 2009: Open Library Environment (OLE)
• April 2009: The mess of ERM