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Retrospective Conversion


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1 Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
2 Dept. of Computer Scicnce, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
     

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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.
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Shikha M. Jalote
Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
India

T. V. Prabhakar
Dept. of Computer Scicnce, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
India

Bhooshan Lal
Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
India


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Authors

Shikha M. Jalote
Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
T. V. Prabhakar
Dept. of Computer Scicnce, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
Bhooshan Lal
Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

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.