just for grins we have the orig. ancient MARC standards pilot project book here.... at some point shall scan it and put it online Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC

Subj:[Koha-devel] Re: MARC standards and North America Date:8/30/2002 11:25:30 PM US Mountain Standard Time From:<A HREF="mailto:pate@eylerfamily.org">pate@eylerfamily.org</A> To:<A HREF="mailto:baljkas@mb.sympatico.ca">baljkas@mb.sympatico.ca</A> CC:<A HREF="mailto:koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net">koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net</A> Sent from the Internet

Steven, Thanks for passing this along. I'm cc:ing the devel list so that it hits a wider audience.

-pate

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 baljkas@mb.sympatico.ca wrote:

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Friday, August 30, 2002 23:56 CDT

Hey Koha folks,

Just finished skimming through the transcript of the IRC mtg. and had one minor correction to offer:

MARC21 is the emergent *North American* standard and represents the collaboration of LC and the NLC (National Library of Canada) in creating the unified MARC21 out of differing practices in USMARC and CANMARC. This is ongoing, of course (still hammering out things, as attested in AUTOCAT listserv discussion on differing application of genre terms despite the 'decision' to adopt the Canadian codes, still resisted in practice by former USMARCers).

If you want to check on this, visit either the LC or NLC site for info the history of MARC21 and you'll see that Paul was a little off in saying that MARC21 was US only.

Cheers, Steven F. Baljkas lib. tech. lurker in Winnipeg, MB, Canada <baljkas@mb.sympatico.ca>