Curriculum Enhanced MARC

["Jane C. Parker" <e920471m@UNCTV.ORG>]

I have just returned from a wonderful two-day institute at Bowling Green
State University in Ohio. The topic is "Curriculum-enhanced " MARC
records... I am quite excited about the possibilities. The senior MARC
standards specialist from the Library of Congress, Randall K. Barry, did
much of the presenting.  A group of folks from the Northwest Ohio
Educational Foundation have been working with the Library of Congress to
facilitate some changes in the USMARC standars to accomodate curriculum a
bit better.... examples:
1) First Indicator value 1 (Review) in Field 20 (summary, etc.not) New
indicator value for identifying the text of reviews
2) First indicator value 3 (special audience characteristics) in Field 521
(Target audience Note) This is a new indicator value.... [This is great for
such things as .. if an item would be great for.... vision-impaired, tactile
learner, etc.
3)Field 658 (index term- curriculum objective) - this is an entirely new
field in USMARC.... with great possibilities...examples:
*national or state course of study, such as "Ohio Math Objective 1 whole
numbers and fractions)
* degree of correlation  such as slightly correlated
*source of the objective such as Ohio Department of Education
I think all school library media specialists will see the enourmous
possibilities of these additional indicators and tags. There will be a
Distance Learning Program on this on September 11 and September 18... please
contact Roger Minier, Director, Nowthwest Ohio Educational Technology
Foundation, 1-800-966-9638 or 1-419-372-7033 . Roger has an e-mail address,
but unfortunately I don't have it with me right now. There are even some
stipends for some distance participants.  This really is a wonderful
program.
Jane Parker
Wake County Public Schools
Raleigh, NC
jparker@nando.net