[Koha] Displaying MARC record data

Colin Campbell cc at zazou.demon.co.uk
Fri Nov 9 09:01:12 NZDT 2001


On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 11:46:15AM -0800, Tonnesen Steve wrote:
> 
> Is there some kind of standard way that MARC records are displayed to
> users?

Not really it was meant to be an exchange format and display would be
a different format entirely. No two systems have done it identically,
although most use a variation on the

100   $aAuthor, Joe
245   $aTitle etc

approach. Even the character used for the subfield separator is not
standardized.

Colin



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