[WEB4LIB] WHAT IS A MARC RECORD,AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

[Sue Kamm]

MARC, an acronym for MAchine Readable Cataloging, is an international 
standard for displaying library catalog records in a format easily 
recognized by library-relalated softwqare.  Using fields to idetify, 
among other things, what is being cataloged (book? sound recording? 
video?). date and place of publication, and language, as well as field 
tags denoting the author (and type of author - named or corpirate), 
title, publication informtion, description of the material, and subject 
headings, MARC provides a uniform method of identifying and recording 
the products of human knowledge.  

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Your friendly CyberGoddess and  ALA Councilor-at-Large,
Sue Kamm
Inglewood/Los Angeles, CA
Truest of the Blue, Los Angeles Dodgers Think Blue Week 2000
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What I wonder is, where are the guys who just love to play baseball?
--Wes Parker, former Los Angeles Dodgers infielder