TradeMARC was designed for the thousands of small to medium sized libraries throughout the country that would benefit from an inexpensive way to access and share MARC records. TradeMARC is a great alternative to expensive MARC CD-ROM subscriptions. Members interactively search the TradeMARC database using standard fields like LCCN, ISBN, author and title.
Charges apply only to downloaded records.
TradeMARC's bibliographic databases are maintained using LibraryNet Pro software developed by Caspr Library Systems of San Jose, California. AmeriMARC co-founder Merrilyn Blue described the cooperative aspect of TradeMARC as a valuable asset for both school and public libraries. Many of our customers purchase fewer than 2,500 items per year and were maintaining expensive CD-ROM database subscriptions for copy cataloging purposes. Additionally, groups of member libraries now have an easy and inexpensive way to create a consortium of shared records through the Web. TradeMARC grew from a joint vision of AmeriMARC co-founders Merrilyn Blue and Edward Leonard.