MARC-y MARC and the Coding Bunch
Anna-Maria Arnljots, Paul Daybell, Kurt H. Meyer, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen, Liz Woolcott · Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University) · 2021
MARC records were identified, isolated from the other search results, then analyzed and individually coded. Coding identified where search terms appeared in a record, determined whether search terms were present in full or in part within those fields, and ascertained what prominent categories of fields were missing from records. Analysis of results ultimately showed that including notes and summaries into catalog records is important for content retrieval, while subject headings were not as impactful for access, but may be valuable to a subset of users who take the additional step of viewing the complete records.