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	-	-	-	455639
Characters per Record	5085	285	720	328094443
Characters per Field	2777	5	34	291456730
Fields per Record	58	10	18	8362060

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	2178	0.48	1583167	0.48
Corrected or Revised	c	228919	50.24	168952859	51.50
New	n	164011	36.00	113864837	34.70
Correction from Prepublication	p	60531	13.28	43693580	13.32

Record Type (MARC Leader Position 06)

Description	MARC Code	Record Count	Percent of Records	File Space Consumed	Percent of File Space
Language Material	a	455637	100.00	328092112	100.00
Computer File	m	2	0.00	2331	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	455634	100.00	328089939	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]	455639	100.00	328094443	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]	455639	100.00	328094443	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]	410209	90.03	294569426	89.78
Full; Unexamined	1	6200	1.36	3840853	1.17
Less Than Full Level	2	1	0.00	817	0.00
Abbreviated Level	3	1	0.00	679	0.00
Core Level	4	20794	4.56	17221609	5.25
Preliminary Level	5	14	0.00	8516	0.00
Minimal Level	7	432	0.09	322354	0.10
Pre-publication	8	17967	3.94	12115666	3.69
Not Applicable	z	17	0.00	10441	0.00
Unknown Code	[unprintable]	4	0.00	4082	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]	15418	3.38	9472538	2.89
AACR2	a	397680	87.28	289314058	88.18
ISBD Form	i	42523	9.33	29295541	8.93
Unknown	u	17	0.00	11449	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]	455639	100.00	328094443	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]	455170	99.90	327744957	99.89
Dashed-on Omit.	d	14	0.00	9928	0.00
Romanized	o	6	0.00	4644	0.00
Romanized script	r	3	0.00	2117	0.00
Shortened	s	3	0.00	2303	0.00
Missing Characters	x	1	0.00	827	0.00
No attempt to code	|	429	0.09	320957	0.10
Unknown Code	[unprintable]	13	0.00	8710	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]	267728	58.76	196947014	60.03
National Ag. Lib.	a	2	0.00	1744	0.00
National Lib. Med.	b	19	0.00	13359	0.00
LC Coop. Cat.	c	923	0.20	731635	0.22
Other Sources	d	186946	41.03	130386722	39.74
Unknown Source	u	8	0.00	5532	0.00
No attempt to code	|	1	0.00	659	0.00
Unknown Code	[unprintable]	12	0.00	7778	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]	286126	62.80	203506882	62.03
Preschool	a	2802	0.61	2113161	0.64
Primary	b	13568	2.98	10612558	3.23
Pre-adolescent	c	13840	3.04	11633754	3.55
Adolescent	d	734	0.16	630957	0.19
Adult	e	60	0.01	48664	0.01
Specialized	f	1	0.00	716	0.00
General	g	17	0.00	13188	0.00
Juvenile	j	138491	30.39	99534563	30.34

Collection Age (MARC 008 Position 07-10)

Description	Record Count	Percent of Records	File Space Consumed	Percent of File Space
--- 2010 ---	1092	0.24	729192	0.22
--- 2009 ---	986	0.22	631019	0.19
--- 2008 ---	820	0.18	521919	0.16
--- 2007 ---	1961	0.43	1238840	0.38
--- 2006 ---	7514	1.65	4668306	1.42
--- 2005 ---	9574	2.10	5870285	1.79
--- 2004 ---	14382	3.16	10689638	3.26
--- 2003 ---	18056	3.96	14492311	4.42
--- 2002 ---	16762	3.68	13229414	4.03
--- 2001 ---	17796	3.91	13942931	4.25
--- 2000 ---	18107	3.97	13920105	4.24
--- 1999 ---	19971	4.38	15090560	4.60
--- 1998 ---	20240	4.44	15232333	4.64
--- 1997 ---	19199	4.21	14379274	4.38
--- 1996 ---	17992	3.95	13453012	4.10
--- 1995 ---	14533	3.19	10790020	3.29
--- 1994 ---	15524	3.41	11570438	3.53
--- 1993 ---	15789	3.47	11697286	3.57
--- 1992 ---	16216	3.56	11946418	3.64
--- 1991 ---	15948	3.50	11557964	3.52
--- 1990 ---	16099	3.53	11527442	3.51
1980 - 1989	124802	27.39	86295553	26.30
1970 - 1979	35090	7.70	23651728	7.21
1960 - 1969	5049	1.11	3072859	0.94
1950 - 1959	1094	0.24	646310	0.20
1940 - 1949	342	0.08	221381	0.07
1930 - 1939	137	0.03	91519	0.03
1920 - 1929	45	0.01	29373	0.01
1910 - 1919	20	0.00	14754	0.00
1900 - 1909	34	0.01	25645	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
1820 - 1829	1	0.00	666	0.00
1600 - 1699	1	0.00	682	0.00
1000 - 1099	7	0.00	4403	0.00
Date Unknown	13	0.00	8235	0.00
No Date	1	0.00	904	0.00
Unknown Code	10432	2.29	6845514	2.09

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	442066	97.02	318134104	96.96
FRENCH	54	0.01	38685	0.01
GERMAN	6	0.00	5105	0.00
SPANISH	13471	2.96	9885804	3.01
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	19	0.00	12189	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	455639	-	14	11	11	100.00	5467067	1.67
5	455639	1	16	16	16	100.00	7290240	2.22
8	455639	-	40	40	40	100.00	18225560	5.55
10	455634	-	90	15	16	100.00	7517540	2.29
20	446210	51038	108	8	21	97.93	10819063	3.30
35	455639	-	18	15	15	100.00	7289623	2.22
40	406921	53	136	6	19	89.31	7909273	2.41
50	455611	43	66	5	22	99.99	10158406	3.10
82	397955	11	47	5	10	87.34	4303416	1.31
100	418628	110	86	6	22	91.88	9619915	2.93
245	455639	-	1055	7	74	100.00	33832217	10.31
250	153246	34	206	7	16	33.63	2512047	0.77
260	446727	54	287	8	46	98.04	20892323	6.37
300	455551	21	177	6	30	99.98	13856304	4.22
400	121	-	71	15	41	0.03	5053	0.00
440	69014	1516	143	7	27	15.15	1951903	0.59
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	63050	1927	157	7	26	13.84	1736665	0.53
491	3	-	23	14	20	0.00	60	0.00
500	223252	61427	911	6	39	49.00	11229159	3.42
501	9	-	159	11	65	0.00	591	0.00
502	11	-	162	13	69	0.00	762	0.00
504	110366	1369	590	11	47	24.22	5304410	1.62
505	12121	1348	2777	5	207	2.66	2788336	0.85
506	2	-	50	28	39	0.00	78	0.00
510	4	-	42	31	34	0.00	137	0.00
511	2	-	78	33	55	0.00	111	0.00
515	1	-	21	21	21	0.00	21	0.00
520	395162	54	372	5	161	86.73	63922746	19.48
521	176231	30297	134	5	9	38.68	1984677	0.60
522	1	-	16	16	16	0.00	16	0.00
525	3	-	55	20	35	0.00	106	0.00
526	46001	-	141	23	46	10.10	2118909	0.65
529	4	-	238	130	163	0.00	652	0.00
530	105	-	169	26	110	0.02	11624	0.00
533	9	-	163	55	73	0.00	663	0.00
538	509	15	670	33	162	0.11	84986	0.03
540	10	-	164	18	57	0.00	570	0.00
546	249	-	157	15	39	0.05	9815	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	71	7	91	19	37	0.02	2939	0.00
590	2	-	27	27	27	0.00	54	0.00
600	37003	5983	134	5	35	8.12	1505489	0.46
601	1	-	41	41	41	0.00	41	0.00
605	2	-	21	21	21	0.00	42	0.00
610	11197	1097	182	5	44	2.46	546053	0.17
611	532	23	114	22	48	0.12	27064	0.01
620	3	-	26	22	23	0.00	70	0.00
630	7798	754	91	10	37	1.71	322286	0.10
650	363978	326641	122	5	32	79.88	22183514	6.76
651	54022	14944	106	6	41	11.86	2840969	0.87
652	1	-	44	44	44	0.00	44	0.00
655	33809	14989	61	15	29	7.42	1441889	0.44
657	5	-	38	25	30	0.00	150	0.00
658	1	-	28	28	28	0.00	28	0.00
659	2	-	26	18	22	0.00	44	0.00
700	155906	42800	182	6	25	34.22	5118871	1.56
710	17578	1591	173	7	31	3.86	606925	0.18
711	54	1	120	18	67	0.01	3700	0.00
720	4	2	38	21	25	0.00	153	0.00
730	9562	694	114	7	31	2.10	323826	0.10
740	21019	3638	131	6	30	4.61	746462	0.23
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	2599	-	247	78	130	0.57	338868	0.10
776	17	1	147	30	104	0.00	1879	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	24387	76	116	20	47	5.35	1160652	0.35
801	2	-	43	42	42	0.00	85	0.00
810	48	3	233	20	77	0.01	3954	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	14367	248	109	9	35	3.15	516869	0.16
838	1	-	46	46	46	0.00	46	0.00
839	1	-	31	31	31	0.00	31	0.00
840	64	-	87	17	36	0.01	2322	0.00
850	1	-	7	7	7	0.00	7	0.00
856	27959	6224	175	8	85	6.14	2909386	0.89
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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