Surf these sites: Bibliographic Formats and Standards -- An exhaustive guide to the MARC standard from OCLC. CAN/MARC home page -- "The Canadian MARC Communication Formats serve as the common standard for the exchange of machine-readable authority, bibliographic, classification, and holdings data in Canada." Includes news and announcements, CAN/MARC documentation, MARC Records Distribution Service (MRDS). Cataloging Cheat Sheet -- A fast guide to cataloguing an item in MARC format. Provides a concise guide to abbreviations and field tags used. Really only meaningful to someone fairly familiar with MARC, but a useful cheat sheet. Created by: J. McRee Elrod. MARC 21 - MARC formats for the 21st century -- "MARC 21 is the result of the activity undertaken to align CAN/MARC and USMARC. It represents the continuation of the CAN/MARC and USMARC formats in a single edition with a new name." MARC Standards -- Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office. Includes: general information, MARC documentation, MARC Advisory Committee, MARC SGML, records and systems, and software and utilities. Making Room for MARC in a Dublin Core World -- Norm Medeiros, ONLINE, November 1999 Tag of the Month -- A guide to most MARC cataloging tags with examples and text explaining their usage. Useful to persons needing plain descriptions of MARC fields. From Follett Software Company. UKMARC Webpage -- British Library National Bibliographic Service UNIMARC -- Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC Core Programme (UBCIM). International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Understanding MARC Bibliographic. Machine Readable Cataloging. -- An introduction to the MARC bibliographic format from the Library of Congress.
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