Essays Tagged: "MARC standards"

A Brief History of Library Automation

ofmachine readable catalog records by the Library of Congress. Between1965 and 1968, LOC began the MARC I project, followed quickly by MARCII. MARC was designed as way of 'tagging' bibliographic reco ... ation date,' and yetanother indicates 'Library of Congress subject headings' and so on. In1974, the MARC II format became the basis of a standard incorporatedby NISO (National Information Standards Or ...

(6 pages) 103 0 3.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Library & Information Science

Cataloging

gingIntroductionThis article on cataloging discusses the current and projected future status of the MARC record, with reference to standards, current developments in record formats, and the impact of ... orm, such a catalogue may also be known as a union list..Current and projected future status of the MARC recordAlthough the Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) standard is often underestimated or disre ...

(9 pages) 71 0 3.0 Jul/2010

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Library & Information Science