[LM_NET] Cataloging - LC Marc question

[Paula Bainter <pbainter@USD327.ORG>]

Today I went to the Library of Congress to download some marc records.  When I got 
ready to download I saw that there are now two choices of marc records, MARC 
(Unicod/UTF-8) and MARC (non-Unicod/MARC-8).  I downloaded both of them and 
imported them into Athena to see what might be different.  Both imported into 
Athena without problems and appear to be identical. Is there a cataloging guru out 
there who can tell me what the difference is?  Do I need to worry about it if 
Athena has no problems with either one?
 
Paula Bainter
Ellsworth High School
211 West 11th Street
Ellsworth, Kansas 67439
Phone: (785) 472-4471 Fax: (785) 472-8109
pbainter@usd327.org
 
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