MARC Report is quality control software for MARC data. It is the librarian's best defense against common coding and cataloging errors in their MARC database.
Brought to you by The MARC of Quality, creators of MARC Review (©1993) and MARC Global (©1997), this Windows program will give you the tools to accomplish a very tough job--validate MARC records according to the latest MARC21 standards--with amazing ease.
But that's not all. Unique to MARC Report are hundreds of cataloging cross-checks created by Deborah Fritz, the author of Cataloging with AACR2R and USMARC (ALA Editions, ©1999), and MARC21 for Everyone (ALA Editions, ©2002). These cross-checks, or CatChecks as we call them, don't simply validate your MARC records, but go a step farther, and check the internal cataloging logic of each record.
MARC Report also includes a MARC editor, and an unmatched collection of integrated MARC utilities, now including both MARC Review (standard) and MARC Global (optional). You can download a 30-day free trial of MARC Report right now by going to the Download page (where there are no annoying forms to fill out), or learn more about the program on the Features page. Or read a short justification for MARC Report contributed by the cataloger at an average-sized public library.
System Requirements
We recommend running MARC Report and MARC Global on systems that have either Windows 2000 Professional or XP Professional installed. We will support MARC Report on Windows 98 until 2005. MARC Report is also reported to work on Windows 95, Windows NT4, Windows Me, and Windows XP Home (but we do not recommend Windows Me). MARC Report is not supported as an application on a Windows server (however, use of MARC Report with network files works fine). Program installation requires less than 10 MB of disk space; however, more disk space is needed to use the editor or the utilties—the exact amount depends on the size of the files you are editing or the type of batch job you are running.