id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ital-5307 Gapen, D. Kaye MARC Format Simplification 1981-01-01 7 .pdf application/pdf 4517 200 53 The origi- nal paper was commissioned in June 1981, by the ARL Task Force on Bibliographic Control as one facet in exploring the per- ceived high costs of cataloging and adher- ing to MARC formats in ARL libraries. The general thrust of that review is a close examination of the MARC format in an attempt to begin to lay the foundation on which revised MARC formats can firmly stand- particularly in regard to content designa- tion (tags, indicators, and subfield codes used to identify and characterize the data explicitly). cache/ital-5307.pdf txt/ital-5307.txt