MARC: Acronym for MAchine-Readable Cataloging

A MARC record is a MA chine- eadable ataloging record. "Machine-readable" means that a computer can read and interpret the data in the cataloging record. For a clear and more in depth description of a MARC record connect to: Understanding MARC bibliographic: machine-readable cataloging. For definitions of specific marc field tags connect to: OCLC bibliographic formats and standards manual.

a MA chine- R eadable C ataloging record