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Heritage MARC 21 Cataloguing

The Heritage MARC 21 Cataloguing module is an optional module for the Heritage Library Management System.

Not everyone wants or needs to catalogue using MARC. For many libraries the added complexity and detail of cataloguing in MARC is unnecessary and any benefits are outweighed by the extra effort that it brings both for librarians and users. Also MARC is not necessarily well suited to the cataloguing all types of material e.g. websites and images.

MARC is nevertheless a very important and useful standard. In particular, if catalogue records are to be transferred between disparate systems then MARC is the obvious standard to adhere to. The MARC 21 Catalouging module enables US MARC 21 records to be imported, created, edited and exported from within Heritage. Each MARC record has a unique standard number and the MARC record is displayed in readable format in the MARC Editor. Each MARC record has a connected Heritage catalogue record with the same standard number, which means that users can also take advantages of the elements of Heritage cataloguing not present in MARC, such as adding administration dates and linking to associated documents. This said, the module is not intended as comprehensive MARC cataloguing system as records will usually be derived from other systems. It also provides the facility to export standard Heritage catalogue records in MARC 21 format.

It is possible to purchase the MARC import or export elements of the module separately, if they are all that you require.