MARC/Perl is a set of Perl 5 libraries for reading, manipulating, outputting and converting bibliographic records in the MARC format. The MAchine Readable Cataloging format was designed by the Library of Congress in the late 1960s in order to allow libraries to convert their card catalogs into a digital format. The MARC format was standardized as ANSI/NISO Z39.2 in 1971 and is now being used by libraries around the world to provide computerized access to their collections.

These are the separate projects that make up MARC/Perl:

marc-record - core MARC processing library
marc-lint - examine your MARC data for common problems
marc-xml - extensions to marc-record for working with MARCXML
marc-mij - extensions to marc-record for working with marc-in-json
marc-marcmaker - extensions to marc-record to handle MARCMaker format
marc-charset - work with MARC-8 and UTF-8 encodings
marc-www - the sourceforge website

The home page of the MARC/Perl project is

http://marcpm.sourceforge.net

The primary code repository can be viewed at

https://sourceforge.net/p/marcpm/code/

Frequently updated mirrors are available at

https://github.com/gmcharlt/marc-perl.git
https://gitorious.org/marc-perl/marc-perl/