This is more for the catalogers in our midst, but I wanted to share. I had not heard of or looked at this site before: http://experimental.worldcat.org/marcusage/. The aggregated data is fascinating! You can view numbers or visualizations. You can view by MARC field or by format. I encourage you to take a look!



Beth





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Subject: [ACAT] Five Years of Revealing How MARC is Used



I thought I would point out that this is the 5th year I have been reporting on how MARC is used in the WorldCat aggregation – the single largest aggregation of library MARC records in the world. It is interesting to see the changes over time, as newly created fields get populated and others that have been deprecated recede in numbers. I blogged about it here:



http://hangingtogether.org/?p=5879



As always, if a report on a particular subfield is desired just let me know.

Roy Tennant

OCLC Research



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