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Unit 5: MAchine-Readable Cataloguing and Online

5.5 Keywords Notes
MARC : MAchine—Readable Cataloguing and Online—is an acronym—used in the field of library
science.
CCF : Common Communication Format, is described in the context of other exchange formats.

5.6 Review Questions

1. Write the function of MARC.
2. What do you mean by CCF?
3. Give a brief history of online public access catalogue.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. MAchine-readable cataloguing
2. Henriette Avram
3. The record structure, the content designation, the data content of the record.
4. Community format, classification data format.
5. UTF-8.
6. (b) 7. (c) 8. (d)

5.7 Further Readings

Aitchinson, J and Gilchrist, A: Thesaurus construction. 2 nd ed. London: Aslib, 1987.
Best, DP, Ed. The fourth resource: information and its management. Aldershot: Aslib,
1996.
Chowdhary, GG: Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval. London: LA, 1999.

Online links http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0008/000806/080626eb.pdf
http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/definition/OPAC
http://lib.kedah.uitm.edu.my/psblibrary/notes/is110/layout/notes/

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