id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 4663 Coward, Richard E. MARC International 1969-12-01 6 .pdf application/pdf 2517 142 52 the Library of Congress and the British National Bibliography the opportunity to look outwards at other systems being developed in other countries. The traditional method of distributing Library of Congress bibliographic information is to provide catalogue cards or proof sheets. The original MARC project ( 1) was "an experiment to test the feasability of distributing Library of Congress cataloguing in machine readable of the MARC I project; its end product was a catalogue record on magnetic tape. form of presentation, as best exemplified by a Library of Congress catalogue card, has been developed which holds all the essential data and What is less understandable is that the Library of Congress should transfer the non-standard cataloguing rules established by provide for international exchange a standard MARC record together with American MARC Projects not as systems for distributing bibliographic information but as the forerunners of an international bibliographic network. ./cache/4663.pdf ./txt/4663.txt