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USEMARCON Plus - The Universal MARC Record Convertor:
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The latest version of USEMARCON (Version 1.4) offers librarians the ability to carry out fast on the fly conversion of MARC formats.
USEMARCON is a software application that allows users to convert bibliographic records from one MAchine-Readable Cataloguing (MARC) format to another. Approximately fifty variant MARC formats are currently in use throughout the world. The differences between the MARC formats present a barrier to the easy exchange of records. This is a fundamental problem for libraries, and necessitates the costly re-cataloguing of material for which records are already available, but in a MARC format other than their own.
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The British Library and ATP Library Systems Ltd is making the new v1.4 software and related documentation available free of charge to users and application developers in order to promote usage of USEMARCON. Potential users are, however, asked to complete a freeware licence to cover the use of the software. The British Library will not be maintaining the software though it may be able to provide priced consultancy services for the development of specific conversion rules.
MCDU Index Page: Examining Present Practices to Inform Future Metadata Use: An Empirical Analysis of MARC Content Designation Utilization
If I ever have to read MARC with PythonLanguage, I'll look at textualize: pymarc:
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The pymarc module provides an API for reading, writing and modifying MARC records from python. MARC (MAchine Readable Cataloging) is a metadata format for bibliographic data.
