Library Cataloging
Powerpoint slides and videos for "Umstieg auf MARC 21" Symposium MARC-ing a new landscape in data exchange are now available.
- Additions To Marc Code List For Languages
The following codes have been approved for use in the international language code standard, ISO 639-2 (Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages--Part 2: alpha-3 code) and are also being added to the MARC Code List for Languages. New code Language...
- Marc Field Usage
A few days ago I mentioned the UNT MARC study of field usage in MARC records. It seems a similar study was done in 1997 in Germany. They found 33 elements that appeared in more than 1% of the records. Only 5 fields were used in 100% of the records (245,...
- Unicode And Marc
There is a new e-mail discussion list, UNICODE-MARC. There don't seem to be any posts yet.The Library of Congress has set up a special listserv for the MARC 21 user community to discuss and arrive at consensus on various issues concerning the implementation...
- British Library
In preparation for the implementation of an integrated library system, the British Library is making available sample BNB MARC exchange data files. These files contain non-current data which has been converted but which is representative of the data that...
- Marc Code Lists For Relators, Sources, Description Conventions
Additions to the MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions Network Development and MARC Standards Office Library of CongressThe subject source code listed below has been recently approved for use in MARC 21 records. This new code...
Library Cataloging
MARC in Germany
Powerpoint slides and videos for "Umstieg auf MARC 21" Symposium MARC-ing a new landscape in data exchange are now available.
In June 2009, the project "Internationalisierung der deutschen Standards: Umstieg auf MARC 21" completed the groundwork for the full implementation of the data exchange format MARC 21 in Germany and Austria.To mark the successful conclusion of this migration project, the German National Library hold a symposium on June 2, 2009 in Frankfurt am Main. The objective of this meeting was to exchange expertise and ideas with the aim of promoting the use of MARC 21 as a foundation of international interoperability in the library world.
- We are in the game - German and Austrian libraries in the international MARC community / Reinhold HeuvelmannMAB, UNIMARC und MARC 21 - use of three standards in BSZ / Cornelia KatzThe challenge of cataloguing in a MARC-based system / Gabriele MeßmerAfter thoughts / Sally McCallumMARC 21, RDA, and the FRBR and FRAD models ... making the connections / Tom DelseyMapping RDA to MARC 21 / Margaret StewartExpectations / Sally McCallum
- Additions To Marc Code List For Languages
The following codes have been approved for use in the international language code standard, ISO 639-2 (Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages--Part 2: alpha-3 code) and are also being added to the MARC Code List for Languages. New code Language...
- Marc Field Usage
A few days ago I mentioned the UNT MARC study of field usage in MARC records. It seems a similar study was done in 1997 in Germany. They found 33 elements that appeared in more than 1% of the records. Only 5 fields were used in 100% of the records (245,...
- Unicode And Marc
There is a new e-mail discussion list, UNICODE-MARC. There don't seem to be any posts yet.The Library of Congress has set up a special listserv for the MARC 21 user community to discuss and arrive at consensus on various issues concerning the implementation...
- British Library
In preparation for the implementation of an integrated library system, the British Library is making available sample BNB MARC exchange data files. These files contain non-current data which has been converted but which is representative of the data that...
- Marc Code Lists For Relators, Sources, Description Conventions
Additions to the MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions Network Development and MARC Standards Office Library of CongressThe subject source code listed below has been recently approved for use in MARC 21 records. This new code...