[Koha-devel] Re: MARC standards and North America
COURYHOUSE at aol.com
COURYHOUSE at aol.com
Sat Aug 31 08:05:01 CEST 2002
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 at eylerfamily.org">pate at eylerfamily.org</A>
> To:<A HREF="mailto:baljkas at mb.sympatico.ca">baljkas at mb.sympatico.ca</A>
> CC:<A HREF="mailto:koha-devel at lists.sourceforge.net">koha-devel at lists.sourceforge.net</A>
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>
> 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 at mb.sympatico.ca wrote:
>
> > 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 at mb.sympatico.ca>
> >
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