The State of Retroconversion in the UK: a review

Derek Law

The State of Retroconversion in the UK: a review

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Abstract

This paper was commissioned in March 1987 by the Centre for Catalogue Research (now Centre for Bibliographic Management) at the University of Bath, for presentation to the UBER Working Group on Library Automation. It discusses the background to
retroconversion, the advantages and disadvantages of the various methods of tackling the work, project costs and the problems to be faced. There is a discussion of future trends and desirable areas of research both nationally and internationally.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	81-93
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
Volume	20
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 4 Apr 1988

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