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Volume 45, Issue 2
1 March 1996
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Library Review
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Conceptual Paper| March 01 1996

Is the future of MARC assured?

Mortaza Kokabi
University of Shaheed Chamran, Ahwaz, Iran
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-793X
Print ISSN: 0024-2535
© MCB UP Limited
1996
Library Review (1996) 45 (2): 68–72.
https://doi.org/10.1108/00242539610107604

The machine‐readable catalogue (MARC) is now more than 20 years old. It has been, and still is, criticized from different points of view. Reviews some of the positive and negative opinions on MARC, as expressed by different sectors of the profession, and studies the future of MARC in relation to technological innovations. Concludes that MARC remains a valuable means of communicating bibliographical information.

Keywords: Computer software, Libraries, Catalogues
© MCB UP Limited
1996
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