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Connaway, Lynn Silipigni; And Others – Microcomputers for Information Management, 1994
Describes MARC bibliographic records and presents conversion procedures for microcomputer database programs. Highlights include database design in dBase; format translation programs in BASIC; translating MARC into a delimited record; and writing records from dBase to a delimited file. Five programs are appended. (Contains nine references.) (LRW)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Cataloging, Data Conversion
Peer reviewedCohen, David – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1989
Discusses the lack of catalog access to local journal holdings and the feasibility of improving access by merging citations to journal articles with bibliographic information already included in online catalogs. The advantages of having libraries contribute serials indexing to a national database are discussed in terms of access and economics.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Cost Effectiveness
