SchoolMARC SEARS

The Sears Cataloging database consists of MARC records with Dewey numbers and Sears subject headings. This database is updated quarterly.

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Overall Statistics

Description	Maximum	Minimum	Average	Totals
Number of Records	-	-	-	397120
Characters per Record	5085	311	733	291238651
Characters per Field	2777	5	34	258724631
Fields per Record	58	11	18	7433545

Record Status (MARC Leader Position 05)

Description	MARC Code	Record Count	Percent of Records	File Space Consumed	Percent of File Space
Higher Encoding Level	a	2037	0.51	1495739	0.51
Corrected or Revised	c	205118	51.65	153089379	52.56
New	n	137813	34.70	98049000	33.67
Correction from Prepublication	p	52152	13.13	38604533	13.26

Record Type (MARC Leader Position 06)

Description	MARC Code	Record Count	Percent of Records	File Space Consumed	Percent of File Space
Language Material	a	397119	100.00	291237269	100.00
Computer File	m	1	0.00	1382	0.00

Bibliographic Level (MARC Leader Position 07)

Description	MARC Code	Record Count	Percent of Records	File Space Consumed	Percent of File Space
Monographic Component	a	1	0.00	840	0.00
Collection	c	4	0.00	3664	0.00
Monograph Item	m	397115	100.00	291234147	100.00

Control Type (MARC Leader Position 08)

Description	MARC Code	Record Count	Percent of Records	File Space Consumed	Percent of File Space
No Specified Type	[blank]	397120	100.00	291238651	100.00

Character Encoding (MARC Leader Position 09)

Description	MARC Code	Record Count	Percent of Records	File Space Consumed	Percent of File Space
MARC-8	[blank]	397120	100.00	291238651	100.00

Encoding Level (MARC Leader Position 17)

Description	MARC Code	Record Count	Percent of Records	File Space Consumed	Percent of File Space
Full Level	[blank]	356535	89.78	260599088	89.48
Full; Unexamined	1	4709	1.19	2972722	1.02
Less Than Full Level	2	1	0.00	817	0.00
Abbreviated Level	3	1	0.00	679	0.00
Core Level	4	20565	5.18	17050120	5.85
Preliminary Level	5	10	0.00	6252	0.00
Minimal Level	7	273	0.07	205858	0.07
Pre-publication	8	15007	3.78	10389682	3.57
Not Applicable	z	15	0.00	9545	0.00
Unknown Code	[unprintable]	4	0.00	3888	0.00

Descriptive Cataloging Form (MARC Leader Position 18)

Description	MARC Code	Record Count	Percent of Records	File Space Consumed	Percent of File Space
Non ISBD Form	[blank]	13643	3.44	8480720	2.91
AACR2	a	344820	86.83	255912840	87.87
ISBD Form	i	38644	9.73	26835777	9.21
Unknown	u	12	0.00	8457	0.00
Unknown Code	[unprintable]	1	0.00	857	0.00

Linked Record Requirement (MARC Leader Position 19)

Description	MARC Code	Record Count	Percent of Records	File Space Consumed	Percent of File Space
Related Record not Required	[blank]	397120	100.00	291238651	100.00

Modified Record (MARC 008 Position 38)

Description	MARC Code	Record Count	Percent of Records	File Space Consumed	Percent of File Space
Not modified	[blank]	396814	99.92	291008300	99.92
Dashed-on Omit.	d	13	0.00	9227	0.00
Romanized	o	5	0.00	4209	0.00
Romanized script	r	2	0.00	1435	0.00
Shortened	s	3	0.00	2303	0.00
No attempt to code	|	273	0.07	206115	0.07
Unknown Code	[unprintable]	10	0.00	7062	0.00

Cataloging Source (MARC 008 Position 39)

Description	MARC Code	Record Count	Percent of Records	File Space Consumed	Percent of File Space
Library of Congress	[blank]	238814	60.14	177962562	61.11
National Ag. Lib.	a	2	0.00	1717	0.00
National Lib. Med.	b	19	0.00	13359	0.00
LC Coop. Cat.	c	846	0.21	676788	0.23
Other Sources	d	157421	39.64	112571904	38.65
Unknown Source	u	8	0.00	5532	0.00
No attempt to code	|	1	0.00	659	0.00
Unknown Code	[unprintable]	9	0.00	6130	0.00

Target Audience (MARC 008 Position 22)

Description	MARC Code	Record Count	Percent of Records	File Space Consumed	Percent of File Space
Unknown or not spec.	[blank]	228999	57.66	167476475	57.50
Preschool	a	2801	0.71	2111652	0.73
Primary	b	13562	3.42	10605556	3.64
Pre-adolescent	c	13833	3.48	11623521	3.99
Adolescent	d	730	0.18	627137	0.22
Adult	e	51	0.01	42484	0.01
Specialized	f	1	0.00	716	0.00
General	g	15	0.00	11880	0.00
Juvenile	j	137128	34.53	98739230	33.90

Collection Age (MARC 008 Position 07-10)

Description	Record Count	Percent of Records	File Space Consumed	Percent of File Space
--- 2010 ---	1087	0.27	721100	0.25
--- 2009 ---	975	0.25	622026	0.21
--- 2008 ---	779	0.20	501989	0.17
--- 2007 ---	1865	0.47	1198858	0.41
--- 2006 ---	6866	1.73	4370705	1.50
--- 2005 ---	8676	2.18	5444941	1.87
--- 2004 ---	12984	3.27	9809559	3.37
--- 2003 ---	16323	4.11	13258137	4.55
--- 2002 ---	15052	3.79	12029897	4.13
--- 2001 ---	15951	4.02	12656812	4.35
--- 2000 ---	16333	4.11	12722330	4.37
--- 1999 ---	17823	4.49	13655773	4.69
--- 1998 ---	17894	4.51	13655892	4.69
--- 1997 ---	16965	4.27	12884471	4.42
--- 1996 ---	15971	4.02	12097577	4.15
--- 1995 ---	12776	3.22	9634548	3.31
--- 1994 ---	13562	3.42	10280827	3.53
--- 1993 ---	13764	3.47	10381234	3.56
--- 1992 ---	14145	3.56	10602873	3.64
--- 1991 ---	13759	3.46	10174352	3.49
--- 1990 ---	13566	3.42	9953613	3.42
1980 - 1989	102441	25.80	72850987	25.01
1970 - 1979	31309	7.88	21362485	7.34
1960 - 1969	4445	1.12	2726798	0.94
1950 - 1959	907	0.23	542896	0.19
1940 - 1949	280	0.07	183829	0.06
1930 - 1939	115	0.03	77320	0.03
1920 - 1929	31	0.01	20761	0.01
1910 - 1919	18	0.00	13045	0.00
1900 - 1909	27	0.01	21065	0.01
1890 - 1899	3	0.00	1778	0.00
1880 - 1889	5	0.00	3039	0.00
1870 - 1879	2	0.00	1393	0.00
1600 - 1699	1	0.00	682	0.00
1000 - 1099	7	0.00	4403	0.00
Date Unknown	10	0.00	6757	0.00
No Date	1	0.00	904	0.00
Unknown Code	10402	2.62	6762995	2.32

Languages (MARC 008 Position 35-37)

Description	Record Count	Percent of Records	File Space Consumed	Percent of File Space
NOT CODED	1	0.00	566	0.00
ENGLISH	383575	96.59	281285268	96.58
FRENCH	53	0.01	38249	0.01
GERMAN	6	0.00	5055	0.00
SPANISH	13448	3.39	9881522	3.39
ARABIC	1	0.00	645	0.00
CATALAN	1	0.00	486	0.00
CHINESE	1	0.00	937	0.00
ITALIAN	5	0.00	4347	0.00
JAPANESE	2	0.00	2707	0.00
LATIN	6	0.00	4879	0.00
PORTUGUESE	3	0.00	2125	0.00
RUSSIAN	1	0.00	749	0.00
UNDETERMINED	1	0.00	432	0.00
URDU	1	0.00	683	0.00
Unknown Code	15	0.00	10001	0.00

Census of MARC Fields Used in the Collection

Tag	Records with Tag	Repeated Fields	Max Length	Min Length	Average Length	Percent of Records	File Space Consumed	Percent of File Space
1	397120	-	14	11	11	100.00	4764906	1.64
5	397120	1	16	16	16	100.00	6353936	2.18
8	397120	-	40	40	40	100.00	15884800	5.45
10	397115	-	90	15	16	100.00	6551009	2.25
20	388740	47934	108	8	21	97.89	9505262	3.26
35	397120	-	18	15	15	100.00	6353386	2.18
40	355594	45	136	6	19	89.54	6853902	2.35
50	397095	39	66	5	21	99.99	8720562	2.99
82	344346	10	47	5	11	86.71	3799072	1.30
100	360643	103	86	6	22	90.81	8268658	2.84
245	397120	-	1055	7	77	100.00	30775396	10.57
250	133260	31	206	7	16	33.56	2175876	0.75
260	388241	48	287	8	47	97.76	18320176	6.29
300	397043	18	177	6	31	99.98	12559617	4.31
400	117	-	71	15	41	0.03	4894	0.00
440	64237	1478	143	7	27	16.18	1824451	0.63
449	3	-	29	20	25	0.00	75	0.00
470	1	-	137	137	137	0.00	137	0.00
480	1	-	33	33	33	0.00	33	0.00
482	1	-	16	16	16	0.00	16	0.00
489	1	-	16	16	16	0.00	16	0.00
490	57816	1839	157	7	26	14.56	1594572	0.55
491	3	-	23	14	20	0.00	60	0.00
500	201366	57613	911	6	38	50.71	9958292	3.42
501	9	-	159	11	65	0.00	591	0.00
502	11	-	162	13	69	0.00	762	0.00
504	107971	1352	590	11	47	27.19	5204731	1.79
505	11042	1097	2777	5	216	2.78	2628342	0.90
506	2	-	50	28	39	0.00	78	0.00
510	2	-	42	31	36	0.00	73	0.00
511	2	-	78	33	55	0.00	111	0.00
515	1	-	21	21	21	0.00	21	0.00
520	341773	48	359	8	157	86.06	53990913	18.54
521	174065	31243	134	5	9	43.83	1977747	0.68
522	1	-	16	16	16	0.00	16	0.00
525	3	-	55	20	35	0.00	106	0.00
526	44141	-	141	23	46	11.12	2032065	0.70
529	4	-	238	130	163	0.00	652	0.00
530	103	-	169	26	109	0.03	11286	0.00
533	6	-	115	55	65	0.00	390	0.00
538	509	15	670	33	162	0.13	84986	0.03
540	10	-	164	18	57	0.00	570	0.00
546	227	-	157	15	39	0.06	8947	0.00
550	8	-	882	68	226	0.00	1813	0.00
560	5	-	43	16	22	0.00	112	0.00
565	2	-	25	19	22	0.00	44	0.00
580	3	-	68	27	48	0.00	145	0.00
583	2	-	61	39	50	0.00	100	0.00
586	68	7	91	19	37	0.02	2815	0.00
590	2	-	27	27	27	0.00	54	0.00
600	36684	5895	134	14	35	9.24	1492966	0.51
601	1	-	41	41	41	0.00	41	0.00
605	2	-	21	21	21	0.00	42	0.00
610	11060	1076	182	15	44	2.79	540141	0.19
611	524	23	114	22	48	0.13	26666	0.01
620	3	-	26	22	23	0.00	70	0.00
630	7692	746	91	14	37	1.94	318128	0.11
650	363680	325643	122	9	32	91.58	22138973	7.60
651	53905	14874	106	14	41	13.57	2833704	0.97
652	1	-	44	44	44	0.00	44	0.00
655	4719	1313	50	16	27	1.19	163098	0.06
657	4	-	38	25	30	0.00	123	0.00
658	1	-	28	28	28	0.00	28	0.00
659	2	-	26	18	22	0.00	44	0.00
700	149339	41159	182	6	25	37.61	4907732	1.69
710	17225	1431	173	7	31	4.34	586801	0.20
711	52	1	120	18	68	0.01	3644	0.00
720	4	2	38	21	25	0.00	153	0.00
730	9171	669	114	7	31	2.31	309838	0.11
740	19335	3256	131	6	31	4.87	701100	0.24
745	1	-	102	102	102	0.00	102	0.00
752	1	-	6	6	6	0.00	6	0.00
753	1	1	17	16	16	0.00	33	0.00
755	1	-	129	129	129	0.00	129	0.00
765	1	1	37	22	29	0.00	59	0.00
770	6	-	174	31	123	0.00	742	0.00
775	2590	-	247	78	130	0.65	337632	0.12
776	16	1	147	58	108	0.00	1849	0.00
778	3	-	133	122	127	0.00	383	0.00
787	3	-	48	27	38	0.00	116	0.00
788	1	-	123	123	123	0.00	123	0.00
799	1	-	32	32	32	0.00	32	0.00
800	22676	75	116	20	47	5.71	1077652	0.37
801	2	-	43	42	42	0.00	85	0.00
810	46	3	233	20	77	0.01	3793	0.00
811	2	-	70	62	66	0.00	132	0.00
820	1	-	11	11	11	0.00	11	0.00
822	1	-	16	16	16	0.00	16	0.00
830	14026	246	109	9	35	3.53	505077	0.17
838	1	-	46	46	46	0.00	46	0.00
839	1	-	31	31	31	0.00	31	0.00
840	59	-	87	17	36	0.01	2182	0.00
850	1	-	7	7	7	0.00	7	0.00
856	24234	5875	175	8	84	6.10	2551884	0.88
860	1	-	29	29	29	0.00	29	0.00
875	1	-	107	107	107	0.00	107	0.00
880	1	-	74	74	74	0.00	74	0.00
886	14	42	104	25	42	0.00	2384	0.00
895	1	-	5	5	5	0.00	5	0.00

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