MARC Manual: Understanding and Using MARC Records

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Summary: MARC Manual: Understanding and Using MARC Records
Review: This volume is extremely well organized and fortunately does not suffer from all the ills so often associated with its ilk (particularly the unusable manuals that come with computer programs). A virtual "Everything you always (or never) wanted to know about MARC [such as that it stands for Machine Readable Cataloging] but didn't know enough to ask," Byrne's effort discusses tags, subfields, and all their gloriously gritty applications in everyday cataloging. Although all this is also in Crawford's MARC for Library Use, 2d ed. (G. K. Hall, 1989), Byrne's discussions of MARC database processing, MARC records on tape and disk, and MARC database products are slightly more up-to-date and inclusive. Her consideration of MARC applications in different types of libraries and collections (government documents, multimedia, archival, etc.) is especially admirable and useful