MARC Record for Allegiant by Veroinca Roth
This is the MARC record I created:
010 ## $a2013941315 (I had to look online for this)
020 ## $a9780062024060
$c21.99
100 1# $aRoth, Veronica
$d 1988-
245 10 $aAllegiant
250 ## $a1st ed.
260 ## $aNew York
$bKatherine Tegan Books an imprint ofHarper Collin’s Children’s Books
$c2013.
300 ## $a526 p. :
$c22cm.
490 1# $aDivergent Series
$v3
520 ## $a The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believe in is shattered – fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world pas the limits she’s known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris’s new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature – and of herself – while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love.
650 01 $a Science Fiction
Reflection:
The task of creating a MARC record was definitely a challenge. I think reading a MARC record to find information is much easier task than the creation of a MARC record.
I ran into the most difficultly with the 650 field. I did not know which subject headings to use. I had looked up the first book in the series, Divergent, to see how this field looked and there were several subjects listed. I did not know how these subjects were determined. I tried to locate a subject guide but was unable to find one. Professor Cho provided me with a link to a more detailed description of field 650 but even that did not help me to determine which subjects to list. Would someone doing the cataloging for a book need to read it before determining which subjects to use?
I tried looking for resource that summarized the MARC fields in plain English because I had a difficult time understanding the descriptions given in Part VII of “A Summary of Commonly Used MARC 21 Fields” but was unsuccessful. This makes me wonder how teacher-librarians can effectively use the MARC record if we don’t understand what the fields are for.
When I compare my MARC record to the MARC record for Allegiant in the Library Congress Online Catalog, I see that I have missed some punctuation. For instance, I have missed a period after the author’s last name and a comma in the publisher’s field. I did not know where to list that Allegiant is hardcover but I see in the Library Congress Catalog hardcover is listed in the 020 field in brackets after the ISBN.
Something I found interesting is that even when I compared the Library of Congress Catalog’s MARC record to the MARC record on the Surrey Library’s website there are differences. For instance, Surrey’s record shows science fiction under the 655 field but the same subject is listed under 650 in the Library of Congress Catalog’s field. 655 isn’t even listed in the “Summary of Commonly Used MARC 21 Fields.” Why is there this difference? Before creating my own MARC record, I thought that with the detailed fields and rules for each field all MARC records would be the same. Now, I can see there is a lot of room for differences caused by the choice the person inputting the data makes.