Library Cataloging
MARC21
Update No. 3 (October 2002) to the MARC 21 Format for Community Information is now available from the Library of Congress. It includes changes made to the community information format resulting from proposals which were considered by the ALA ALCTS/LITA/RUSA Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee (MARBI) at its 2002 meetings and by the Canadian Committee on MARC (CCM) at its meetings in 2002. This update features important new information including:
- Addition of field 648 (Subject added entry -- Chronological term)
- Improved descriptions of content designators
- Updated examples
Does anyone use this format? For the type of information it contains I think I'd opt to use GILS, unless the information was to be in the OPAC. However, how many OPACs can handle Community Information and display it nicely? I used to see ads for a company that sold MARC records for national level community information services. I haven't seen them in a while. Has Google put an end to their service? I think if I wanted to contact an organization dealing with liver disease I'd do a Web search, not check out the local the local library catalog.
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Marc 21 Format For Community Information
Update No. 4 (October 2003) to the MARC 21 Format for Community Information is now available from the Library of Congress. It includes changes made to the community information format resulting from proposals which were considered by the ALA ALCTS/LITA/RUSA...
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Marc 21 Format For Classification
Update No. 4 (October 2003) to the MARC 21 Format for Classification Data is now available from the Library of Congress. It includes changes made to the classification format resulting from proposals which were considered by the ALA ALCTS/LITA/RUSA Machine-Readable...
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Marc21
Update No. 3 (October 2002) to the MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data is now available from the Library of Congress. It includes changes made to the bibliographic format resulting from proposals which were considered by the ALA ALCTS/LITA/RUSA Machine-Readable...
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Marc21
Update No. 3 (October 2002) to the MARC 21 Format for Authority Data is now available from the Library of Congress. It includes changes made to the authority format resulting from proposals which were considered by the ALA ALCTS/LITA/RUSA Machine-Readable...
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Marc21
Update No. 3 (October 2002) to the MARC 21 Format for Holdings Data is now available from the Library of Congress. It includes changes made to the holdings format resulting from proposals which were considered by the ALA ALCTS/LITA/RUSA Machine-Readable...
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