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A Shelflist Conversion for Multi-Library Uses.

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This article is published in Library Resources & Technical Services.The article was published on 1971-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cataloging & Cost effectiveness.

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Developing a strategy for retrospective conversion of the card catalog to a machine readable data base in three academic libraries (small, medium and large): Two alternatives considered

TL;DR: General cost equations were developed for retrospective conversion of a target library's card catalog to a machine readable data base using an already existing source data base, and several simple inequalities involving selection costs, number of records in the target file, and amount of collection overlap between source and target were developed.