MARC Program Research and Development: A Progress Report

A description of some of the research and development activities at the Library of Congress to expand the capabilities of the MARC System. Gives details of the MARC processing format used by the Library and then describes programming work in three areas: 1) automatic tagging of data elements by form...

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Main Authors: Henriette D. Avram, Alan S. Crosby, Jerry G. Pennington, John C. Rather, Lucia J. Rather, Arlene Whitmer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Library Association 1969-12-01
Series:Information Technology and Libraries
Online Access:https://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ital/article/view/4667
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description A description of some of the research and development activities at the Library of Congress to expand the capabilities of the MARC System. Gives details of the MARC processing format used by the Library and then describes programming work in three areas: 1) automatic tagging of data elements by format recognition programs; 2) file analysis by a statistical program called GENESIS; and 3) information retrieval using the MARC Retriever.
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