On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nd.edu> wrote:
> MARC is a data structure
> designed to allow the transmission of authority, classification,
> community, bibliographic, and holdings information of libraries. ISBD
> and AACR2 define rules and syntax for the content that goes into the
> data structure.
Though, sadly, MARC still relies on ISBD and AACR2 to provide
additional structure to some data rather than doing it on its own.
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Mark Sandford
Special Formats Cataloger
William Paterson University
(973)270-2437
sandfordm1_at_wpunj.edu
Received on Thu Apr 10 2008 - 14:11:31 EDT