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MARC 21 Concise Format Listings

Library Science Project: MARC Format Analysis

The purpose of this project was to identify several different MARC 21 Concise Format listings for several versions of a particular work held in a library collection and to compare and contrast those formats. Additionally, several Web sites that do not employ MARC 21 Formats were also accessed in order to provide further examples of the ways in which description is employed to categorize or identify a work and its content and authorship. The works elected for the analysis was, in its original form, Leo Tolstoy's novel, War and Peace, described as an epic novel of Russian history and society, published in 1865 to 1869 in series form, which tells the story of Russia during the Napoleonic Era (Wikipedia, 2003).

War and Peace was selected as the focus of this analysis because it has been adapted by many literary and musical artists, providing a variety of forms that include the novel itself, motion pictures, "talking books" or audio books, an opera, and so forth (Wikipedia, 2003). Additionally, given its place in world literature, Tolstoy's novel has also been the subject of a wealth of critical analyses and interpretations such as Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace (Miller & Orwin, 1997-1998).

The MARC 21 Concise Format offers a record structure that consists of three main components: The Leader, the Directory, and the Variable Fields (MARC 21 Concise Formats, 2002). Specifically, these components are described as follows:

Contains data elements that provide information for the processing of the record. The data elements contain numbers or coded values and are identified by a relative character position. The Leader is fixed in length at 24 character positions and is the first field in all MARC records.

Contains a series of entries that contain the tag, length, and starting location of each variable field within a record. Each entry is 12 character positions in le...

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