Bibliographic and Technical Problems in Implementing a National Library Network

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The evolving MARC system: The concept of a data utility

Many documents have been published describing the current MARC system, the procedures and computer programs that are used at the Library of Congress (LC) for the MARC Distribution Service and other projects for divisions within LC. This paper attempts to explain the rationale of the system, to summarize what exists today (the results of the efforts of 1967-1969), and to describe the emerging plans for the next generation of the MARC system (1970-1971).published or submitted for publicatio

Organizations Contributing to Development of Library Standards

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The Recon Pilot Project: A Progress Report

A synthesis of the progress report submitted by the Library of Congress to the Council on Library Resources under an Officers Grant to initiate the RECON Pilot Project that gives an overview of the project and the progress made from August-November 1969 in the following areas: training, selection of material to be converted, investigation of input devices, and format recognition

Content Designators for Machine-Readable Records: A Working Paper

Under the auspices of the International Federation of Library Association's Committees on Cataloging and Mechanization,. an International Working Group on Content Designators was formed to attempt to resolve the differences in the content designators assigned by national agencies to their machine-readable bibliographic records

The Recon Pilot Project: A Progress Report, October 1970-May 1971

Synopsis of three progress reports on the RECON Pilot Project submitted by the Library of Congress to the Council on Library Resources covering the period October 1970-May 1971. Progress is reported in the following areas: RECON production, foreign language editing test, format recognition, microfilming, input devices, and tasks assigned to the RECON Working Task Force

MARC II and COBOL

A description of the machine processing of MARC II records using COBOL for an application on the Library of Congress System 360/30. Emphasis is on the manipulation by COBOL of highly complex variable length MARC records containing variable length fields

Principles of Format Design

This paper is a summary of several working papers prepared for the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Working Group on Content Designators. The first working paper, January 1973, discussed the obstacles confronting the Working Group, stated the scope of responsibility for the Working Group, and gave definitions of the terms, tags, indicator and data element identifiers, as well as a statement of the function of each. The first paper was submitted to the Working Group for comments and was subsequently modified (revised April 1973) to reflect those comments that were applicable to the scope of the Working Group and to the definition and function of content designators. The present paper makes the basic assumption that there will be a SUPERMARC and discusses principles of format design. This series of papers is being published in the interest of aerting the library community to intemational activities. All individual working papers are submitted to the MARBI interdivisional committee of ALA by the chairman of the IFLA Working Group for comments by that committee

Recon Pilot Project: A Progress Report, April-September 1970

A synopsis of the third progress report on the RECON Pilot Project submitted by the Library of Congress to the Council on Library Resources. An overview is given of the progress made from April through September 1970 in the following areas: RECON production, format recognition, research titles, microfilming, and investigation of input devices. In addition, the status of the tasks assigned to the RECON Working Task Force are briefly described