The 2000 edition of the MARC Code List for Organizations is now available from the Library of Congress. This revision of the 1996 edition contains a list of up-to-date organization codes that represent names of libraries and other kinds of organizations that are identified in the bibliographic environment. The codes listed in this publication are used to designate United States, and to a lesser extent, non-U.S. libraries and other institutions. MARC Code List for Organizations is a key to codes for holding institutions represented in the Library of Congress National Union Catalog(NUC) catalog.
The 2000 edition of the MARC Code List for Organizations contains 5,492 new codes assigned since the 1996 edition. This large number of new codes can be attributed to the continuing expansion of the use of standard identifiers, nationally by school libraries (particularly for statewide projects) and internationally as information is shared globally via the Internet.
The list includes all valid codes and code assignments as of September 2000 and supersedes the 1996 edition of the USMARC Code List for Organizations.
MARC Code List for Organizations (ISBN 0-8444-1013-6) is available for $42 (North America) and $44 (outside North America) from:
MARC 21 information, including future updates to this edition of the organizations list, may be found at: //www.loc.gov/marc/
October, 11 2000
Library of Congress