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Volume 1, Issue 3
1 March 1983
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Review Article| March 01 1983

Vendor‐Based Retrospective Conversion at George Washington University

Andrew Lisowski
Andrew Lisowski
Head of the Catalog Department at George Washington University and Director of its Retrospective Conversion Project
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-166X
Print ISSN: 0737-8831
© MCB UP Limited
1983
Library Hi Tech (1983) 1 (3): 23–26.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb047507

In May 1982, the Gelman Library of George Washington University initiated circulation services on a DataPhase A LIS‐II automated library system. This article discusses the conversion of records to machine‐readable format and the linking of physical items requisite to installing the system. Two vendors were selected to support two components of the conversion project, which are described.

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