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MARC is the acronym for MAchine-Readable Cataloging. It defines a data format that emerged from an initiative led by the United States Library of Congress that began thirty years ago. It provides the mechanism by which computers exchange, use, and interpret bibliographic information, and its data elements make up the foundation of most library catalogs used today. See the MARC site and particularly the faq page.

As a result of an inquiry from Susan West, cataloguer at Stonnington Library in Victoria, and with lots of help and advice from Susan, we now have a MARC file available which most libraries in Australia can load into their catalogue. This means that when users browse the catalogue, titles included in our MARC file will show up as being available, with a direct link to the actual file at Project Gutenberg Australia.

This first MARC file includes detals of the 'Australiana' ebooks at Project Gutenberg Australia. Another file contains details of many other titles available from PGA.

Librarians can download a zip file containing the 'Australiana' MARC file and the text file used to create it. Contact us for further information, or to obtain the second MARC file.