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, first released in 1999, will give you the tools to accomplish a very tough job—apply quality control to MARC records according to the latest MARC21 standards--with amazing ease.
But that's not all. Unique to MARC Report are thousands of cataloging
cross-checks created by
Besides the most comprehensive and customizable validation
available, MARC Report includes: a MARC editor, Text Editor, XML record viewer,
Batch mode validation, and an unmatched collection of integrated MARC file
utilities (Verify, Split, Concatenate, MARC Analysis, Sort/Dedupe),
converters (Import Text, Export Text, MARC to XML, XML to MARC), plus MARC
Review, and MARC
Global (which requires a separate license). These utilities will quickly
process MARC and MARCXML files of any size.
MARC Report is constantly updated to reflect changes in
cataloging practice and improve its own error checking capabilities. This
software is used by hundreds of catalogers in libraries and library companies
around the world (small libraries, big libraries, national libraries, de-facto
national libraries) to check their records, and the records they receive from
other sources, for errors or unwanted data elements.
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.
MARC Report and MARC Global are supported on any Windows
platform from Windows 2000 onward.
MARC Report is not supported as an application that is
launched on a Windows Server.
MARC Report is updated frequently (2-3 times per year).
To update MARC Report, Administrative privileges are required
in Windows.
Program installation requires about 25 MB of disk space.
The amount of disk space needed to run the program or the
utilities is determined by the size of the MARC files that you are using. In general, you should have free disk space
equivalent to twice the disk space of the file that is being used.