On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:
I'm a newbie trying to wrap my computer science mind around MARC
Don't know what you're using for learning marc, but you might want to keep http://www.loc.gov/marc. Just remember it's based off of flat file processing and your computer science mind shouldn't have to horrible of a time with the technical manipulation of records even if some of the cataloging issues aren't clear.
I'd like to create a 270 record (I think) from this information.
It looks like you're confusing records with fields. A record can contain any number of fields, and fields will contain two indicators and certain subfields. So you probably want at a record with at least the address field (270), and title (245).
MARC::Record has some documentation on how to add fields to a marc record after it's been created (see the add_fields()).
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