Please take a look at the following example of MARC format. Note the different colors. Then, look carefully at the terms below. Do you see how each color is associated with a term? Now compare them within context of the MARC format.
100 1 Chute, Marchette Gaylord, ‡d 1909-
245 10 Stories from Shakespeare / ‡c Marchette Chute.
260 New York : ‡b Meridian, ‡c c1976 (1993 printing)
300 319 p. ; ‡c 21 cm.
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The terms you just reviewed define the important elements (or components) of the MARC format. It is important to know these terms in order to read and understand a MARC bibliographic record.
