An Historical PerspectiveOriginal Requirements for Z39.50

• Support the sharing of machine-readable bibliographic records (i.e., MARC records)

• Enable cataloger to search remote bibliographic databases (i.e., library catalogs)

• Allow cataloger to retrieve bibliographic records

• Focus was on searching well-known, structured information with common access points (e.g., author, title, and subject)

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