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	-	-	-	397199
Characters per Record	5085	311	733	291265441
Characters per Field	2777	5	34	258749804
Fields per Record	58	11	18	7433811

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	205190	51.66	153127767	52.57
New	n	137820	34.70	98039029	33.66
Correction from Prepublication	p	52152	13.13	38602906	13.25

Record Type (MARC Leader Position 06)

Description	MARC Code	Record Count	Percent of Records	File Space Consumed	Percent of File Space
Language Material	a	397198	100.00	291264059	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	397194	100.00	291260937	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]	397199	100.00	291265441	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]	397199	100.00	291265441	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]	356578	89.77	260605907	89.47
Full; Unexamined	1	4745	1.19	2995437	1.03
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	17050063	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	10386995	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]	13708	3.45	8521891	2.93
AACR2	a	344827	86.81	255894236	87.86
ISBD Form	i	38651	9.73	26840000	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]	397199	100.00	291265441	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]	396893	99.92	291035090	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]	238892	60.14	178010069	61.12
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	157422	39.63	112551187	38.64
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]	229068	57.67	167520753	57.51
Preschool	a	2801	0.71	2111663	0.72
Primary	b	13562	3.41	10604753	3.64
Pre-adolescent	c	13833	3.48	11623444	3.99
Adolescent	d	730	0.18	627099	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	137138	34.53	98722649	33.89

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	1197905	0.41
--- 2006 ---	6866	1.73	4369003	1.50
--- 2005 ---	8676	2.18	5443208	1.87
--- 2004 ---	12984	3.27	9807137	3.37
--- 2003 ---	16323	4.11	13256678	4.55
--- 2002 ---	15052	3.79	12028127	4.13
--- 2001 ---	15951	4.02	12655404	4.34
--- 2000 ---	16333	4.11	12721407	4.37
--- 1999 ---	17823	4.49	13655263	4.69
--- 1998 ---	17894	4.51	13654593	4.69
--- 1997 ---	16965	4.27	12882770	4.42
--- 1996 ---	15971	4.02	12095424	4.15
--- 1995 ---	12776	3.22	9633041	3.31
--- 1994 ---	13563	3.41	10280720	3.53
--- 1993 ---	13765	3.47	10381154	3.56
--- 1992 ---	14146	3.56	10603265	3.64
--- 1991 ---	13759	3.46	10173739	3.49
--- 1990 ---	13569	3.42	9955359	3.42
1980 - 1989	102442	25.79	72850240	25.01
1970 - 1979	31335	7.89	21378739	7.34
1960 - 1969	4478	1.13	2748525	0.94
1950 - 1959	914	0.23	546618	0.19
1940 - 1949	285	0.07	187173	0.06
1930 - 1939	115	0.03	77320	0.03
1920 - 1929	32	0.01	21453	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	383654	96.59	281333805	96.59
FRENCH	53	0.01	38249	0.01
GERMAN	6	0.00	5055	0.00
SPANISH	13448	3.39	9859775	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	397199	-	14	11	11	100.00	4765854	1.64
5	397199	1	16	16	16	100.00	6355200	2.18
8	397199	-	40	40	40	100.00	15887960	5.45
10	397194	-	90	15	16	100.00	6552688	2.25
20	388751	47934	108	8	21	97.87	9505513	3.26
35	397199	-	18	15	15	100.00	6354650	2.18
40	355632	45	136	6	19	89.53	6854593	2.35
50	397174	39	66	5	21	99.99	8722075	2.99
82	344425	10	47	5	11	86.71	3799795	1.30
100	360718	103	86	6	22	90.82	8270827	2.84
245	397199	-	1055	7	77	100.00	30781614	10.57
250	133277	31	206	7	16	33.55	2176100	0.75
260	388320	48	287	8	47	97.76	18323301	6.29
300	397122	18	177	6	31	99.98	12562058	4.31
400	117	-	71	15	41	0.03	4894	0.00
440	64243	1478	143	7	27	16.17	1824636	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	57834	1840	157	7	26	14.56	1595176	0.55
491	3	-	23	14	20	0.00	60	0.00
500	201383	57614	911	6	38	50.70	9959112	3.42
501	9	-	159	11	65	0.00	591	0.00
502	11	-	162	13	69	0.00	762	0.00
504	108006	1352	590	11	47	27.19	5206026	1.79
505	11046	1098	2777	5	216	2.78	2628811	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	341852	48	359	8	157	86.07	54001342	18.54
521	174038	30269	134	5	9	43.82	1957658	0.67
522	1	-	16	16	16	0.00	16	0.00
525	3	-	55	20	35	0.00	106	0.00
526	44143	-	141	23	46	11.11	2032158	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	36693	5896	134	14	35	9.24	1493294	0.51
601	1	-	41	41	41	0.00	41	0.00
605	2	-	21	21	21	0.00	42	0.00
610	11062	1076	182	15	44	2.79	540217	0.19
611	524	23	114	22	48	0.13	26666	0.01
620	3	-	26	22	23	0.00	70	0.00
630	7693	746	91	14	37	1.94	318177	0.11
650	363748	325683	122	9	32	91.58	22142407	7.60
651	53915	14877	106	14	41	13.57	2834247	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	149361	41163	182	6	25	37.60	4908596	1.69
710	17229	1431	173	7	31	4.34	586987	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	9175	671	114	7	31	2.31	309995	0.11
740	19337	3256	131	6	31	4.87	701160	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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