id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
2939	Avram, Henriette D.; Droz, Julius R.	MARC II and COBOL	1968-12-01	12	.pdf	application/pdf	4254	590	77	length MARC records containing variable length fields. Congress for the MARC Distribution Service, some potential users of machine readable data have expressed doubts that MARC formatted records tape was in the Library of Congress' MARC processing format. the analysis of the COBOL language with the task at hand, i.e, the programming effort required to produce the necessary reports from a magnetic tape file of MARC records. Leader Communications Control Fixed Record Variable Library of Congress MARC Processing Format. MARC records at the Library of Congress are contained on magnetic The control fields contain alphameric data elements and are recorded like variable fields although many have a fixed length. field is identified by a 3-byte numeric tag in the record directory In COBOL, the MARC file and records, along with the option card file Output of COBOL Language Program Using MARC II Data. COBOL was successfully used for the computer processing of MARC records.	./cache/2939.pdf	./txt/2939.txt