U.S. MARC AMC (MAchine-Readable Cataloging for Archives and Manuscript Control) has "come of age," taking its place in the mainstream of both archival and cataloging thinking, theory, and practice. The meteoric rise in the use of MARC AMC is evident in the statistics reported by the bibliographic utilities. The literature of MARC AMC, although extensive, has not been reviewed since 1989 and does not systematically document the use of the format in U.S. academic archives. This paper presents a review of that literature and reports the results of a 1992 survey of 200 archivists, representing 200 academic archives in the United States. These respondents were randomly selected from the Society of American Archivists' 1991 Directory of Individual Members; they cooperated in a survey examining the use of MARC AMC for cataloging archival and manuscript collections. This paper profiles the institutional use of MARC AMC, including the choice of a cataloging standard, such as Steven Henson's Archives, Personal Papers and Manuscripts, Second Edition (APPM, Second Edition) and Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, Second Edition, Revised (AACR2R), chapter 4. The paper concludes with an admonition for archivists and traditional catalogers to work collaboratively to catalog archival and manuscript collections.
The IPI study which appeared on January 16 reported that press censorship was on the rise, even in free countries. On the other hand, the Soviet Union appeared to be easing up on censorship according to the New York Times. Moscow News, a Soviet publication in the English language, resumed publication after six years on January 7. La Prensa reappeared in Buenos Aires on February 3 with a new face—a front page of news instead of the former gray front page of classified ads. The first day 840,000 copies were run off. Other Latin American news was the lifting of press censorship in Brazil by newly-inaugurated President Kubischek, and the worsening heavy-handed suppression of opposition newspapers in Colombia by Dictator Rojas Pinilla. In Hungary, AP correspondent Endre Marton, a Hungarian national, and his wife, a UP correspondent, were sentenced to imprisonment for spying. Mrs. Marton has since been released. History was made in Chinese journalism when Communist Chinese newspapers began printing from left to right, horizontally at the beginning of this year. In Britain, the world-renowned journalist and author, a former editor of The Times, Henry Wickham Steed, died on January 13 at the age of 84.
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