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Title: If you need to learn MARC, this isn't the tool for you
Review: I started using this book to become familiar with all the MARC fields and tags, and how to use them. Except for the several mistakes in the answers, I thought that the first section (on 008 field) was very good. But I was sadly disappointed in the following sections. In fairness, the introduction of the book explains that this book is only to reinforce your understanding of MARC (but you didn't know that until you had the book in front of you). I assumed this was a book to teach how to use the MARC format. (I just ended up taking another few classes on MARC-- then I could understand this book-- defeats my purpose of having bought the book though). I haven't used the other 2 sections of the book (AACR2 & Authority control) so can't comment on those. But if you need to learn about MARC, this isn't the book for you.
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