MicroLIF is a bibliographic record format created
by a group of publishers and vendors in the ‘80s when micro-computer library
automation became popular. The standard
is based on MARC. Although MicroLIF does not include leader and directory found in
MARC records, the sequence of the tags and data follow the MARC closely. Today there are still thousands of libraries,
particularly in school library community, that use MicroLIF
standard for their bibliographic records.
Since conversion between MicroLIF and standard
MARC format is a frequent operation, conversion utilities are useful tool in
performing this process.
The two programs
are offered here for libraries to use freely:
MARC-LIF converts MARC records to MicroLIF records;
LIF-MARC converts MicroLIF
records to MARC records.
In addition,
these two programs support a popular text file format used by MARCBreaker and MARCMaker (by
Randall K. Barry, Library of Congress).
The two programs
run under DOS with a 386 Intel (or compatible) processor, or better, and
Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista in DOS emulation mode.
How to run:
1. download the two programs to a folder of
your PC;
2. go to command mode by Start button à Run… à command à DOS
emulation command mode;
3. use cd command to
go to the folder where the two programs are kept;
4. type MARC-LIF or LIF-MARC to see the usage
information.
· Download MARC-LIF,
v.1.3
· Download LIF-MARC,
v.1.3
· Download sample
MicroLIF records
· Download sample MARC
records
· Download sample text
format records
NOTE:
THIS SOFTWARE
DOES NOT GIVE ANY, EXPLICIT OR IMPLICIT, WARRANTY. THE AUTHOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
INADVERTENCE AS A RESULT OF USING THIS SOFTWARE.
This utility
package is maintained by Phil Huang
of Sonoma State University. Feel free to
contact him if you have any questions.
Last
updated: 1/17/2008