MARC: News and Announcements (December 20, 2000)

TECHNICAL NOTICE (December 20, 2000)

Format for Community Information

Format Changes List
Update No. 1 (October 2000)

Network Development and MARC Standards Office
Library of Congress


This section is provided for the lists of format changes that accompany each update to the MARC 21 Format for Community Information. It can also be found in Appendix F of the MARC 21 Format for Community Information.

This page documents the changes contained in the first update to the 2000 edition of the MARC 21 Format for Community Information. Update No. 1 (October 2000) includes changes resulting from proposals which were considered by the ALA ALCTS/LITA/RASD Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee (MARBI) at its meetings in July 2000 and by the Canadian Committee on MARC (CCM) at its meetings in July 2000.

LC Implementation Plans
Subscribers can anticipate receiving MARC records reflecting these changes in all distribution services not earlier than March 20, 2001.



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