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	-	-	-	397144
Characters per Record	5085	311	733	291253050
Characters per Field	2777	5	34	258737406
Fields per Record	58	11	18	7433909

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	205140	51.65	153103056	52.57
New	n	137815	34.70	98049798	33.66
Correction from Prepublication	p	52152	13.13	38604457	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	397143	100.00	291251668	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	397139	100.00	291248546	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]	397144	100.00	291253050	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]	397144	100.00	291253050	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]	356544	89.78	260604366	89.48
Full; Unexamined	1	4724	1.19	2981920	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	17050101	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	10389624	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]	13663	3.44	8493198	2.92
AACR2	a	344821	86.83	255912974	87.87
ISBD Form	i	38647	9.73	26837564	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]	397144	100.00	291253050	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]	396838	99.92	291022699	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]	238838	60.14	177977602	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	112571263	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]	229020	57.67	167489803	57.51
Preschool	a	2801	0.71	2111652	0.73
Primary	b	13562	3.41	10605518	3.64
Pre-adolescent	c	13833	3.48	11623521	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	137131	34.53	98740377	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	4370666	1.50
--- 2005 ---	8676	2.18	5444902	1.87
--- 2004 ---	12984	3.27	9809483	3.37
--- 2003 ---	16323	4.11	13258085	4.55
--- 2002 ---	15052	3.79	12029819	4.13
--- 2001 ---	15951	4.02	12656792	4.35
--- 2000 ---	16333	4.11	12722244	4.37
--- 1999 ---	17823	4.49	13655734	4.69
--- 1998 ---	17894	4.51	13655873	4.69
--- 1997 ---	16965	4.27	12884452	4.42
--- 1996 ---	15971	4.02	12097558	4.15
--- 1995 ---	12776	3.22	9634548	3.31
--- 1994 ---	13562	3.41	10280730	3.53
--- 1993 ---	13764	3.47	10381234	3.56
--- 1992 ---	14146	3.56	10603712	3.64
--- 1991 ---	13759	3.46	10174313	3.49
--- 1990 ---	13566	3.42	9953594	3.42
1980 - 1989	102441	25.79	72850871	25.01
1970 - 1979	31316	7.89	21366912	7.34
1960 - 1969	4452	1.12	2731162	0.94
1950 - 1959	911	0.23	545055	0.19
1940 - 1949	284	0.07	186504	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	383599	96.59	281299763	96.58
FRENCH	53	0.01	38249	0.01
GERMAN	6	0.00	5055	0.00
SPANISH	13448	3.39	9881426	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	397144	-	14	11	11	100.00	4765194	1.64
5	397144	1	16	16	16	100.00	6354320	2.18
8	397144	-	40	40	40	100.00	15885760	5.45
10	397139	-	90	15	16	100.00	6551526	2.25
20	388742	47934	108	8	21	97.88	9505290	3.26
35	397144	-	18	15	15	100.00	6353770	2.18
40	355604	45	136	6	19	89.54	6854085	2.35
50	397119	39	66	5	21	99.99	8720981	2.99
82	344370	10	47	5	11	86.71	3799295	1.30
100	360666	103	86	6	22	90.81	8269319	2.84
245	397144	-	1055	7	77	100.00	30777125	10.57
250	133264	31	206	7	16	33.56	2175929	0.75
260	388265	48	287	8	47	97.76	18321066	6.29
300	397067	18	177	6	31	99.98	12560527	4.31
400	117	-	71	15	41	0.03	4894	0.00
440	64243	1478	143	7	27	16.18	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	57821	1839	157	7	26	14.56	1594769	0.55
491	3	-	23	14	20	0.00	60	0.00
500	201376	57613	911	6	38	50.71	9958628	3.42
501	9	-	159	11	65	0.00	591	0.00
502	11	-	162	13	69	0.00	762	0.00
504	107982	1352	590	11	47	27.19	5205171	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	341797	48	359	8	157	86.06	53993962	18.54
521	174070	31216	134	5	9	43.83	1977166	0.68
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	11.12	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	36687	5895	134	14	35	9.24	1493070	0.51
601	1	-	41	41	41	0.00	41	0.00
605	2	-	21	21	21	0.00	42	0.00
610	11061	1076	182	15	44	2.79	540163	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	363700	325655	122	9	32	91.58	22139808	7.60
651	53907	14875	106	14	41	13.57	2833844	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	149346	41159	182	6	25	37.60	4907990	1.69
710	17226	1431	173	7	31	4.34	586821	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	9173	669	114	7	31	2.31	309886	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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