Library Catalogue in the Internet Age

Library Catalogue In Modern Era

In the year 1960, a major breakthrough has taken place in the development of library catalogue in the form of MARC (Machine Readable Catalogue). Before this in the 19^th century several catalogue codes like AACR (Anglo American Cataloguing Rule), CCC (Classified Catalogue Code) were designed to standardized the practice of entering bibliographical details on card catalogue. With the development of MARC, it led the standard for encoding catalogue record electronically enabling computerized system to search and retrieve information effectively. MARC called for each bibliographic field to be assigned a unique numerical tag, and sometime an alphabetical sub tag, so as when a search is carried out by title, author or subject the computer program will look into such specific numerical tag in the database. (Kumar, 2013)