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==Development of MARC== | ==Development of MARC== | ||
==Folger adoption of MARC== | ==Folger adoption of MARC== | ||
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MARC, or MAchine Readable Cataloging, is a set of standards developed by the Library of Congress in the 1960s by the Library of Congress to enable consistent formatting and sharing of catalog records in an approaching digital environment. Folger catalog records are formatted according to the MARC 21 standard, which is used by most major libraries.
MARC is not to be confused with AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition) or RDA (Resource Description & Access), though these terms are frequently used together. MARC is a formatting standard, while AACR2 and RDA are content standards: AACR2 and RDA determine what information goes into a catalog record, and MARC determines where it goes and what the record looks like.