[Koha-devel] Re: MARC standards and North America

[Pat Eyler]

Steven,
Thanks for passing this along.  I'm cc:ing the devel list so that it hits
a wider audience.

-pate

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 address@hidden wrote:

> Friday, August 30, 2002    23:56 CDT
>
> Hey Koha folks,
>
> Just finished skimming through the transcript of the IRC mtg. and had one
> minor correction to offer:
>
> MARC21 is the emergent *North American* standard and represents the
> collaboration of LC and the NLC (National Library of Canada) in creating
> the unified MARC21 out of differing practices in USMARC and CANMARC. This
> is ongoing, of course (still hammering out things, as attested in AUTOCAT
> listserv discussion on differing application of genre terms despite the
> 'decision' to adopt the Canadian codes, still resisted in practice by
> former USMARCers).
>
> If you want to check on this, visit either the LC or NLC site for info the
> history of MARC21 and you'll see that Paul was a little off in saying that
> MARC21 was US only.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven F. Baljkas
> lib. tech. lurker in Winnipeg, MB, Canada
> <address@hidden>
>
>