| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Authority records | provide information about individual names, subjects, and uniform titles. An authority record establishes an authorized form of each heading, with references as appropriate from other forms of the heading. |
| Bibliographic records | describe the intellectual and physical characteristics of bibliographic resources (books, sound recordings, video recordings, and so forth). |
| Classification records | MARC records containing classification data. For example, the Library of Congress Classification has been encoded using the MARC 21 Classification format. |
| Community Information records | MARC records describing a service providing agency. For example, the local homeless shelter or tax assistance provider. |
| Holdings records | provide copy-specific information on a library resource (call number, shelf location, volumes held, and so forth). |
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