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Re: Photograph Cataloging?



On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Erin Foley wrote:

> Considering that MARC was designed to catalog collections, ...

Can't get my fingers off the keyboard this morning ;-)

MARC has never been the monolithic beast that Erin suggests above that it
was/is. While the AMC format was designed for creating cataloging records
for archival collections, there was also, pre format integration, a format
for visual materials that *was* designed to support item-level cataloging
of visual images. And then there's books ...

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