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Guide to MARC 21 for Cataloging Books and Serials

Asoknath Mukhopadhyay, formerly the Librarian at IIMC Kolkota, India

 - written by a leading authority
 - highly detailed and up-to-date

A comprehensive handbook for MARC catalogers and a valuable learning resource for students. The book represents a subset of MARC21 fields delineating scope, content designations, interpretations and examples. The terminology and definitions used are in tune with MARC documentation, CCP, OCLC, AACR2 and ISBD. Based on updates to MARC, the book offers field- and subfield-specific interpretations of rules and provides many examples for the appropriate use of tags, delimiters and date renderings.The book also contains a detailed bibliography and webography, plus a list of gateways that provide authentic information sources about MARC-compatible library software, utilities, freely accessible databases of MARC records and online cataloguing norms and practices.

ISBN 1 84334 407 6
ISBN-13: 978 1 84334 407 0
September 2007
490 pages  234 x 156mm  hardback  
£62.50 / US$105.00 / €75.00

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About the author

Asoknath Mukhopadhyay is formerly the Librarian at IIMC Kolkota, India.

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Contents

Meaning and description: meaning of MARC
 - Bibliographic elements
 - Physical structure
 - Dual role
 - Iimportance and advantages
 - Origin and development
 - Ultilingual/multiscript support
 - versions and updates
 - Resource sharing initiative
 - Implementing MARC format

Prelude to MARC cataloging – logical record structure
 - Content designation
 - Physical control of data content
 - Functions of content designators
 - Note to MARC catalogers

MARC cataloging elements – logical data
 - Structural framework
 - Field tag distribution
 - Implementation decisions
 - Customary field sets
 - Display formatting issues

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