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Update No. 7
MARC 21 Format for Community Information
(2000 Edition)

Network Development and MARC Standards Office
Library of Congress

Update No. 7 (October 2006) to the MARC 21 Format for Community Information is now available from the Library of Congress. It includes changes made to the community information format resulting from proposals which were considered by the ALA ALCTS/LITA/RUSA Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee (MARBI) at its 2006 meetings, the Canadian Committee on MARC (CCM) at its meetings in 2006, and by the BIC Bibliographic Standards Group (BIC/BSG) at its 2006 meetings. This update features important new information including:

• Addition of subfield $j (Relator term) in fields 111, 611 and 711

Update No. 7 to the MARC 21 Format for Community Information is available for $10 worldwide (Except in Canada -- See below for ordering information in Canada).

Order from:

Library of Congress
Cataloging Distribution Service
Customer Services Section
Washington, DC 20541-4912
www.loc.gov/cds/contact.html
TEL: 1-202-707-6100
FAX: 1-202-707-1334
E-MAIL: cdsinfo@loc.gov

French versions of MARC 21 publications and English versions in Canada are available from:

Government of Canada Publications
Ottawa, Ontario K1A OS5 Canada
http://publications.gc.ca/helpAndInfo/hwrdr-e.htm
TEL: 1-800-635-7943
FAX: 1-800-565-7757
E-MAIL: publications@pwgsc.gc.ca

Please note: Update No. 7 is also available in PDF online at: www.loc.gov/cds/PDFdownloads/marc/index.html

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