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Volume 11, Issue 4
1 April 1977
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Program: electronic library and information systems
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Review Article| April 01 1977

Backfile conversion today: CIM era or chimera? Available to Purchase

John Ross;
John Ross
British Library (Science Reference Library)
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Bruce Royan
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Scottish Libraries Co‐operative Automation Project (SCOLCAP)
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7301
Print ISSN: 0033-0337
© MCB UP Limited
1977
Program (1977) 11 (4): 156–165.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb046760

The difficulties of retrospective library catalogue conversion are described. Computer Input Microfilm (CIM) is compared with more conventional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) techniques. After giving examples of known uses of the technique, and listing studies of it in a library context, the paper outlines the scope for such a system within a very large library such as the British Library.

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