MARC Distribution Services

These electronic services are your source for MARC records, delivered via FTP (File Transfer Protocol). MDS offers cataloging records, available in original scripts, for materials in hundreds of languages, from Arabic to Yiddish, along with other non-roman alphabet languages such as Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, and Korean. MDS provides national level cataloging for almost all English-language imprints. Each service is available as a current-year (January-December) subscription or a retrospective file.