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The MAchine Readable Cataloging format was designed by the Library of
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Congress in the late 1960s in order to allow libraries to convert their card
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catalogs into a digital format. The advantages of having computerized card
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catalogs were soon realized, and now MARC is being used by all sorts of
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libraries around the world to provide computerized access to their collections.
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MARC data in transmission format is optimized for processing by computers, so
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it's not very readable for the normal human. For more about the MARC format,
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visit the Library of Congress at http://www.loc.gov/marc/
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