Phew! What a lesson! This was an interesting lesson and a long and tiring lesson. Before this lesson I had never even heard of MARC records. I had never noticed the link to them on library sites. I honestly never thought that teacher-librarians would need to know something like this. Boy was I wrong! There is so much value in knowing how a MARC record works. First of all it’s important when wanting to create proper display records and also for understanding how to create a proper search.
To complete part A of my assignment for this lesson I referred to the VPL website. I analyzed the MARC records and could get a sense of what kind of information was provided and the order. However when completing part B of the assignment I was left with far more questions than when I started. There are still many lines that I don’t know what they mean or how to find that information. The information from the readings was definitely helpful but not all the sections were included. These are some of the questions and observations I was left with at the end of the assignment.
The book I chose to write a MARC record for is Anna Kerenina by Leo Tolstoy. This book has a section on the inside of the book titled: ‘The Library of Congress has catalogued the American hardcover edition as follows: ‘ then they have written all the necessary information for cataloguing. This will be helpful in doing the MARC record especially in doing the subject category since I know very little about this. I wish all books had the information so well laid out!
Some of the areas that I missed:
040 Cataloguing Source- I’m not sure how I find this information. The VPL MARC record indicates that it’s DLC (Depository Library Council). I don’t see anything in the book that would indicate this.
041 Language Code
050 Library of Congress call number- I saw the numbers but didn’t know what they referred to.
100- The VPL site has put in ‘graf’. I don’t know what that means.
240- Uniform title. I don’t know what is the difference between title and uniform title.
246- Varying form of title
250 and 260 were off but I found this to be quite confusing. In the book there are the publications for Great Britain and for the US. I chose the Great Britain publication but I guess I was supposed to choose the American publication. I’m not sure how you would decide.
I do feel a little better after having done this activity but I’m quite worried about Assignment #2 in which we have to complete 20 MARC records for different types of ressources.
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