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Volume 9, Issue 2
1 February 1975
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Program: electronic library and information systems
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Review Article| February 01 1975

The Catalogue Conversion Project of the National Library, Cairo: a Progress Report

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Abdel Rehim Sabry
Director, National Centre for Bibliographical Services, National Library, Cairo
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A.E. Jeffreys
Sub‐librarian, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Unesco consultant, National Library, Cairo
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7301
Print ISSN: 0033-0337
© MCB UP Limited
1975
Program (1975) 9 (2): 78–83.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb046718

The National Library of the Arab Republic of Egypt is preparing a computer‐based catalogue of its acquisitions from 1870 to 1969. Keypunching has begun with the Arabic holdings, and is complete for science and technology classes. The paper discusses the problems of data preparation and computer printout of Arabic text.

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