MARC for Archival Description

New Orleans, LA | October 15, 2018 | REGISTER NOW!

Early Bird Deadline: September 15, 2018

This course covers the details involved in expressing archival description in the MARC bibliographic format. Learn about the various aspects of the MARC bibliographic format and the application of DACS in the MARC format.

Your instructor will address all aspects of the MARC format, including fixed fields, main and added entries, subject added entries, and descriptive fields. The course includes hands-on exercises and the construction of a MARC record, discussion of the utility of MARC in the descriptive framework, and identification of resources available for assisting in the construction of MARC records.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Identify the MARC bibliographic format and specific MARC fields and subfields relevant to archival description.
• Apply DACS content and authorized forms of names to form a MARC record that represents archival collections.

Who Should Attend?  Archivists who want to create records in another format (MARC) that allows archival description to be expressed in an environment in which other formats are also described.