On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 12:32:49PM -0500, Harvey Hahn wrote:
> Although in *THEORY* both alphabetic and numeric characters could be used in
> tags in a locally-defined MARC format, the currently defined five MARC
> formats in use by libraries (bibliographic, authority, holdings,
> classification data, and community information) utilize only NUMERIC
> characters for tags in the MARC21 implementation. What Ashley quoted above
> was the *general* MARC definition, not the definition used in any specific
> implementation, such as MARC21.
I was actually quoting from "MARC 21 specifications for record
structure, character sets and exchange media" published in 2000
by the LoC. ISBN 0844410063.
Ashley.
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