Recon Pilot Project: A Progress Report, April-September 1970
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The third progress report on the RECON Pilot Project submitted by the Library of Congress to the Council on Library Resources as mentioned in this paper describes the progress made from April through September 1970 in the following areas: RECON production, format recognition, research titles, microfilming, and investigation of input devices.Abstract:
A synopsis of the third progress report on the RECON Pilot Project submitted by the Library of Congress to the Council on Library Resources. An overview is given of the progress made from April through September 1970 in the following areas: RECON production, format recognition, research titles, microfilming, and investigation of input devices. In addition, the status of the tasks assigned to the RECON Working Task Force are briefly described.read more
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The Recon Pilot Project: A Progress Report
TL;DR: A synthesis of the progress report submitted by the Library of Congress to the Council on Library Resources to initiate the RECON Pilot Project that gives an overview of the project and the progress made from August-November 1969 in the following areas: training, selection of material to be converted, investigation of input devices, and format recognition.
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The Recon Pilot Project: A Progress Report, November 1969 - April 1970
TL;DR: The second progress report submitted by the Library of Congress to the Council on Library Resources under a grant for the RECON Pilot Project was published in 1970 as discussed by the authors, with an overview of progress made from November 1969 to April 1970 in the following areas: production, official catalog comparison, format re cognition, research titles, microfilming, investigation of inptut devices.