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BOX 1-18 MARC Development Office
Office files covering the MARC Pilot Project and the activities of the MARC Development Office through the early 1970s. These items had been placed in storage with the Central Services Division.
BOX 1 Programming Sciences Corporation, Washington, D.C.: correspondence, contract to write program to sort MARC records (late 1960s)
BOX 1 R & D Consultants: proposal to write code compression program for subject headings; report from Jerry Pennington (LC staff member monitoring project) (late 1960s)
BOX 1 Hughes Aircraft: proposal to write program to sort subject heading and bibliographic records: miscellaneous documents related to Hughes application program (late 1960s)
BOX 1 Programming Sciences Corporation, Washington, D.C.: proposal to use a format recognition technique to tag subject heading records (late 1960s)
BOX 1 Listings (subject headings) (late 1960s)
BOX 2 Listings and punched cards for SKED (Sort Key Edit) (late 1960s)
BOX 3 Hughes Aircraft: unsolicited proposal to design subject headings maintenance system (1968)
BOX 3 Programming Sciences Corporation: proposed feasibility study to automate subject headings used in dictionary catalogs of the Library of Congress (1968)
BOX 3 Letter to Hope Clement (National Library of Canada) (1975)
BOX 3 Documentation for MARC Sort Program, i.e., SKED, Phase I and II (late 1960s)
BOX 3 Punched cards for SKED
BOX 4 MARC Pilot Project Participants (1966-68)
BOX 4 Addresses of MARC participants
BOX 4 MARC participants' reports
BOX 4 MARC participants' reports—drafts
BOX 4 Letters/Argonne
BOX 4 Argonne: sample products, reports, etc.
BOX 4 California (University of, Berkeley)
BOX 4 Letters/UCLA
BOX 4 Letters/Chicago (University of)
BOX 4 Chicago: sample products, reports, etc.
BOX 4 Letters/Florida (University of)
BOX 4 Florida: sample products, reports, etc.
BOX 4 Letters/Georgia Institute of Technology
BOX 4 Georgia Institute of Technology: sample products, reports, etc.
BOX 4 Letters/Harvard University
BOX 4 Harvard: sample products, reports, etc.
BOX 4 Letters/Indiana University
BOX 4 Indiana University: sample products, reports, etc.
BOX 4 Letters/Missouri (University of)
BOX 4 Missouri: sample products, reports, etc.
BOX 4 Letters/Montgomery County Public Schools
BOX 4 Letters/Nassau County Library System
BOX 4 Redstone Arsenal: sample products, reports, etc.
BOX 4 Letters/Rice University
BOX 4 Rice University: sample products, reports, etc.
BOX 4 Letters/Toronto (University of)
BOX 4 Toronto: sample products, reports, etc.
BOX 4 Letters/Washington State Library
BOX 4 Washington State Library: sample products, reports, etc.
BOX 4 Letters/Yale University
BOX 4 Yale: sample products, reports, etc.
BOX 4 Correspondence (general)
BOX 4 Letters/Cornell University
BOX 4 Letters/Florida Atlantic University
BOX 4 Inter-office memos on MARC
BOX 4 Letters/University of Wisconsin
BOX 4 MARC trip reports
BOX 4 MARC paper tape format
BOX 5 MARC proceedings (Conference on Machine-Readable Catalog Copy, 1st) (January 1975)
BOX 5 Original proposal (pilot) to CLR (1965)
BOX 5 Pilot project proposal and addendum (1965)
BOX 5 Staff detailed to ISS
BOX 5 Correspondence, outgoing (1st Conference on Machine- Readable Catalog Copy)
BOX 5 Conference on Machine-Readable Catalog Copy, 2nd, November 1965
BOX 5 Conference on Machine-Readable Catalog Copy 3rd February 1966
BOX 5 Research on language codes (1966-68)
BOX 5 Publisher's code (1966-68)
BOX 5 General
BOX 5 Worksheets/questions on publisher's code
BOX 5 Operations
BOX 5 Listings of publisher's code
BOX 5 Geographic—city and country codes (1966-68)
BOX 5 MARC Distribution Service: tapes and worksheets, 1st week, 1st cycle (February ? 1969)
BOX 5 Sample MARC worksheets (pilot)
BOX 5 Sample UAC MARC 3x5 card listings (pilot)
BOX 5 Catalog cards analysis (number of characters per entry/subject headings, etc.) (late 1960s)
BOX 5 Write-up of statistical count/sample 2
BOX 5 Library Quarterly article, "Statistical Analysis of a Random Sample of Regular Library of Congress Catalog Cards, 1950-64" (final draft)
BOX 5 Library Quarterly article (draft and tables)
BOX 5 Sample (of catalog cards)
BOX 5 Character sets—MARC I
BOX 5 Bourne cost model correspondence (1966-68)
BOX 5 Production records, batches 1-250 (pilot)
BOX 5 Supplementary statistics (pilot)
BOX 5 Statistics/x-ref. input time
BOX 5 Statistics (samples for PSI)
BOX 6 Worksheets/reprints (pilot)
BOX 6 Planning Memo (A Proposed Format for a Standardized Machine-Readable Catalog Record. ISS Planning Memorandum no. 3, 1965)
BOX 6 Comments received
BOX 6 Correspondence
BOX 6 Drafts
BOX 6 Planning Memo
BOX 6 Analysis of comments
BOX 6 Task Force A-l
BOX 6 Task Force
BOX 6 Worksheets—analysis and comments
BOX 6 Comments
BOX 6 MARC evaluation report (1967)
BOX 6 Questionnaires
BOX 6 Pilot distribution (of tapes)
BOX 6 Miscellaneous correspondence/other distributors
BOX 6 Service bureau for MARC
BOX 6 Commercial book jobbers and MARC
BOX 6 Commercial book jobbers/Stacey's
BOX 6 Service Bureau Corporation (proposal to provide data processing services)
BOX 6 MARC Distribution Service—Product distribution procedures, 1st version (1969?)
BOX 6 MARC system computer operator's manual (1969?)
BOX 6 Control deck (sample printout of residual index display)
BOX 6 MARC II Format (The MARC II Format: A Communications Format for Bibliographic Data) (1968)
BOX 6 Documents used in development (from John Knapp, one of the authors)
BOX 6 MARC Distribution Service, general
BOX 6 MARC II Format development
BOX 6 Format correspondence
BOX 6 Subject headings (treatment in MARC II)
BOX 6 Comments on MARC II (from Allen Veaner, Stanford University)
BOX 6 Delimiting headings
BOX 6 Filing
BOX 6 Main and added entries
BOX 6 Mailing list—MARC II preliminary edition
BOX 6 Working drafts
BOX 6 Outline (drafts)
BOX 7 Drafts (working copies), 3 sets
BOX 7 Draft, 3rd ed.
BOX 7 Draft, 4th ed.
BOX 7 Draft, 5th ed.
BOX 7 MARC subscriber’s guide, 1st release (1968?)
BOX 7 MARC Pilot Project final report: miscellaneous notes, memos, correspondence
BOX 7 MARC subscriber’s guide, 2nd release (1969?)
BOX 7 MARC subscriber's guide, 3rd edition (1969?)
BOX 7 Preliminary edit program documentation (1968-69?)
BOX 7 Dura (paper tape device)
BOX 7 MT/ST
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