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Authors
Affiliations
1 Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, IN
2 Dept. of Computer Scicnce, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, IN
Source
Journal of Information and Knowledge (Formerly SRELS Journal of Information Management), Vol 32, No 3 (1995), Pagination: 134-140
Abstract
Retrospective conversion is to convert library's existing bibliographic records into machine-readable format. A brute force method of typing in all the information will take an enormous amount of time for a large library. An approach for retrospective conversion that was employed by IIT-KLAS the library automation project at IIT, Kanpur is described. The approach uses commercially available CD-ROM databases to reduce the effort. Discusses the issues involved in using such an approach and how these were resolved for iit-KLAS.
Keywords
Library Automation, Retrospective Conversion, Integrated Software Package, Cases Study.