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Bibliographic Control Alphabet Soup: AACR to RDA and the Evolution of MARC: a Webinar Report: How to Catalog a Hiccup Blog

Bibliographic Control Alphabet Soup: AACR to RDA and the Evolution of MARC: a Webinar Report

November 2009

Report on the NISO webinar held October 14 that provided background and an overview of RDA and the significant changes from AACR2. Also presented were the results of a study of the use of MARC fields by catalogers. MARC has 200 fields and 800 subfields.Only 4% of fields account for 80% of all records.