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	-	-	-	447924
Characters per Record	5085	292	722	323804344
Characters per Field	2777	5	34	287767152
Fields per Record	58	10	18	8225431

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	2183	0.49	1592664	0.49
Corrected or Revised	c	227016	50.68	168209523	51.95
New	n	158198	35.32	110181901	34.03
Correction from Prepublication	p	60527	13.51	43820256	13.53

Record Type (MARC Leader Position 06)

Description	MARC Code	Record Count	Percent of Records	File Space Consumed	Percent of File Space
Language Material	a	447922	100.00	323802013	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	447919	100.00	323799840	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]	447924	100.00	323804344	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]	447924	100.00	323804344	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]	402568	89.87	290283615	89.65
Full; Unexamined	1	6259	1.40	3910783	1.21
Less Than Full Level	2	1	0.00	817	0.00
Abbreviated Level	3	1	0.00	679	0.00
Core Level	4	20780	4.64	17207946	5.31
Preliminary Level	5	14	0.00	8639	0.00
Minimal Level	7	432	0.10	323986	0.10
Pre-publication	8	17849	3.98	12055423	3.72
Unknown Level	u	1	0.00	488	0.00
Not Applicable	z	17	0.00	10469	0.00
Unknown Code	[unprintable]	2	0.00	1499	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]	15387	3.44	9559597	2.95
AACR2	a	398906	89.06	290851290	89.82
ISBD Form	i	33612	7.50	23380663	7.22
Unknown	u	18	0.00	11937	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]	447924	100.00	323804344	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]	447455	99.90	323452857	99.89
Dashed-on Omit.	d	14	0.00	9956	0.00
Romanized	o	6	0.00	4854	0.00
Romanized script	r	3	0.00	2125	0.00
Shortened	s	3	0.00	2311	0.00
Missing Characters	x	1	0.00	827	0.00
No attempt to code	|	429	0.10	322573	0.10
Unknown Code	[unprintable]	13	0.00	8841	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]	267135	59.64	197165520	60.89
National Ag. Lib.	a	2	0.00	1744	0.00
National Lib. Med.	b	19	0.00	13407	0.00
LC Coop. Cat.	c	905	0.20	719113	0.22
Other Sources	d	179843	40.15	125891176	38.88
Unknown Source	u	7	0.00	4820	0.00
No attempt to code	|	1	0.00	659	0.00
Unknown Code	[unprintable]	12	0.00	7905	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]	280927	62.72	200928917	62.05
Preschool	a	2800	0.63	2110727	0.65
Primary	b	13554	3.03	10598159	3.27
Pre-adolescent	c	13835	3.09	11629253	3.59
Adolescent	d	722	0.16	621980	0.19
Adult	e	60	0.01	48664	0.02
Specialized	f	1	0.00	716	0.00
General	g	17	0.00	13188	0.00
Juvenile	j	136008	30.36	97852740	30.22

Collection Age (MARC 008 Position 07-10)

Description	Record Count	Percent of Records	File Space Consumed	Percent of File Space
--- 2010 ---	846	0.19	551501	0.17
--- 2009 ---	788	0.18	482034	0.15
--- 2008 ---	618	0.14	379329	0.12
--- 2007 ---	1921	0.43	1199708	0.37
--- 2006 ---	7398	1.65	4573045	1.41
--- 2005 ---	9365	2.09	5714914	1.76
--- 2004 ---	14271	3.19	10616532	3.28
--- 2003 ---	17912	4.00	14396147	4.45
--- 2002 ---	16623	3.71	13134515	4.06
--- 2001 ---	17727	3.96	13901769	4.29
--- 2000 ---	18053	4.03	13893350	4.29
--- 1999 ---	19920	4.45	15070264	4.65
--- 1998 ---	20202	4.51	15226315	4.70
--- 1997 ---	19171	4.28	14382268	4.44
--- 1996 ---	17959	4.01	13455320	4.16
--- 1995 ---	14502	3.24	10806800	3.34
--- 1994 ---	15496	3.46	11601234	3.58
--- 1993 ---	15768	3.52	11731359	3.62
--- 1992 ---	16197	3.62	11988981	3.70
--- 1991 ---	15932	3.56	11604956	3.58
--- 1990 ---	16094	3.59	11578711	3.58
1980 - 1989	124725	27.85	86678419	26.77
1970 - 1979	35001	7.81	23736946	7.33
1960 - 1969	5088	1.14	3124225	0.96
1950 - 1959	1105	0.25	658688	0.20
1940 - 1949	346	0.08	224753	0.07
1930 - 1939	141	0.03	95612	0.03
1920 - 1929	45	0.01	29473	0.01
1910 - 1919	20	0.00	14814	0.00
1900 - 1909	34	0.01	25729	0.01
1890 - 1899	3	0.00	1786	0.00
1880 - 1889	5	0.00	3051	0.00
1870 - 1879	2	0.00	1397	0.00
1820 - 1829	1	0.00	666	0.00
1600 - 1699	1	0.00	686	0.00
1000 - 1099	7	0.00	4449	0.00
Date Unknown	13	0.00	8279	0.00
No Date	1	0.00	908	0.00
Unknown Code	4623	1.03	2905411	0.90

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	435045	97.12	314337665	97.08
FRENCH	44	0.01	31534	0.01
GERMAN	6	0.00	5121	0.00
SPANISH	12790	2.86	9401328	2.90
ARABIC	1	0.00	645	0.00
CHINESE	1	0.00	937	0.00
ITALIAN	5	0.00	4351	0.00
JAPANESE	1	0.00	1429	0.00
LATIN	6	0.00	4883	0.00
PORTUGUESE	3	0.00	2129	0.00
RUSSIAN	1	0.00	753	0.00
URDU	1	0.00	683	0.00
Unknown Code	19	0.00	12320	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	447924	-	15	11	11	100.00	5374502	1.66
5	447920	1	20	16	17	100.00	7751364	2.39
8	447924	-	40	40	40	100.00	17916960	5.53
10	447919	-	90	15	16	100.00	7396994	2.28
20	438429	49911	108	8	21	97.88	10626371	3.28
35	447924	-	19	15	15	100.00	7166198	2.21
40	398881	48	97	6	19	89.05	7663027	2.37
50	447900	42	66	5	22	99.99	9979789	3.08
82	400813	11	47	5	10	89.48	4333002	1.34
100	411631	108	86	6	22	91.90	9379586	2.90
245	447924	-	739	7	74	100.00	33176309	10.25
250	150472	33	206	7	16	33.59	2434778	0.75
260	447920	56	287	8	46	100.00	20947748	6.47
300	447837	21	177	6	30	99.98	13537061	4.18
400	121	-	71	15	41	0.03	5053	0.00
440	68989	1516	143	7	27	15.40	1950760	0.60
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
490	60806	1796	157	7	26	13.58	1674009	0.52
491	3	-	23	14	20	0.00	60	0.00
500	220856	60605	911	5	39	49.31	11121180	3.43
501	9	-	159	11	65	0.00	591	0.00
502	11	-	162	31	79	0.00	875	0.00
504	108467	1365	590	11	47	24.22	5195543	1.60
505	11803	1355	2777	9	205	2.64	2704441	0.84
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	397997	54	372	5	161	88.85	64404004	19.89
521	172921	25119	134	5	9	38.60	1883261	0.58
525	3	-	55	20	35	0.00	106	0.00
526	45888	-	141	23	46	10.24	2113692	0.65
529	3	-	238	130	167	0.00	503	0.00
530	103	-	169	26	110	0.02	11412	0.00
533	10	-	163	55	71	0.00	718	0.00
538	507	15	670	33	162	0.11	84644	0.03
540	8	-	164	19	66	0.00	528	0.00
546	219	-	157	15	39	0.05	8709	0.00
550	8	-	882	68	226	0.00	1813	0.00
560	1	-	43	43	43	0.00	43	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	70	7	91	19	37	0.02	2902	0.00
600	36083	5730	134	5	34	8.06	1457821	0.45
601	1	-	41	41	41	0.00	41	0.00
605	2	-	21	21	21	0.00	42	0.00
610	10894	1058	182	5	44	2.43	529714	0.16
611	518	18	114	22	48	0.12	26131	0.01
620	3	-	26	22	23	0.00	70	0.00
630	7574	728	91	10	37	1.69	312177	0.10
650	357048	316718	122	5	32	79.71	21578849	6.66
651	52634	14402	106	6	41	11.75	2759742	0.85
655	31315	12862	61	15	29	6.99	1318092	0.41
657	4	-	38	25	30	0.00	120	0.00
658	1	-	28	28	28	0.00	28	0.00
659	1	-	18	18	18	0.00	18	0.00
700	152926	39131	182	6	25	34.14	4862232	1.50
710	17137	1536	173	7	31	3.83	587597	0.18
711	55	1	120	18	67	0.01	3756	0.00
720	4	2	38	21	25	0.00	153	0.00
730	9376	608	114	7	31	2.09	312434	0.10
740	21000	3624	131	6	30	4.69	745793	0.23
750	1	-	36	36	36	0.00	36	0.00
752	1	-	6	6	6	0.00	6	0.00
753	1	1	17	16	16	0.00	33	0.00
765	1	1	37	22	29	0.00	59	0.00
770	1	-	31	31	31	0.00	31	0.00
776	5	-	89	30	61	0.00	307	0.00
787	3	-	48	27	38	0.00	116	0.00
799	1	-	32	32	32	0.00	32	0.00
800	23704	75	116	23	47	5.29	1127979	0.35
810	46	3	233	20	77	0.01	3794	0.00
811	2	-	70	62	66	0.00	132	0.00
820	1	-	11	11	11	0.00	11	0.00
830	12855	176	109	9	36	2.87	471122	0.15
838	1	-	46	46	46	0.00	46	0.00
840	64	-	87	17	36	0.01	2322	0.00
850	1	-	7	7	7	0.00	7	0.00
856	27522	5606	175	8	84	6.14	2814123	0.87
875	2	-	107	48	77	0.00	155	0.00
886	14	42	134	25	46	0.00	2593	0.00
895	1	-	5	5	5	0.00	5	0.00

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