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When I try to Email a MARC record, I get plain text catalog records. What happened?

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When I try to Email a MARC record, I get plain text catalog records. What happened?

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While it may appear that it is possible to Email MARC records, it is not. If the radio button for MARC Format is selected and the record(s) are Emailed, they will be received in the standard ASCII format. However, it is possible to save a single catalog record or a set of records in the MARC Communications Format. These formatted records may be imported into any MARC-based catalog system, but require special software to view (for special software, see the MARC 21 Web page ). For more information, see Help on Printing, Saving, and Emailing search results.