MARC::Charset is a package to assist you in converting data encoded using MARC-8 character sets to Unicode (UTF-8).

MARC/Perl is a Perl 5 library 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.