Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ380471
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Publication Date: 1988
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The Cost of Converting to MARC AMC: Some Early Observations.
Cloud, Patricia D.
Library Trends, v36 n3 p573-83 Win 1988
Reviews the experiences of 12 research libraries that participated from 1984-86 in the retrospective conversion of approximately 21,000 data records describing archival materials using RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network). Factors affecting the amount of time spent on the project--the integrity of finding aids and authority work--are discussed. (11 references) (MES)
Descriptors: Archives, Automation, Costs, Higher Education, Machine Readable Cataloging, Research Libraries, Standards, Tables (Data)
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