I'm guess I'm still not up to speed on the jargon. I thought the field length problem was a result of the requirement/desire/call it what you will, to incorporate the actual text of the work into what we currently refer to as the MARC record. On 8/31/07, Karen Coyle <kcoyle_at_kcoyle.net> wrote: "But what I think you point out above is that the MARC record is > essentially the mark-up of a text -- with the text being the result of > cataloging."Received on Fri Aug 31 2007 - 11:43:43 EDT