The Birmingham Libraries' Co‐operative Mechanisation Project: Progress Report, January 1972–June 1973

The period that this report covers has been one of considerable achievement. The aim of the Birmingham Libraries' Co‐operative Mechanisation Project (BLCMP) has been to design and develop a system to utilise centrally produced machine‐readable bibliographic records in the MARC format in local situations, and to assess the practicability of a regional data bank, accessible to a number of libraries, using these records and records produced locally.