[Web4lib] Retrospective conversion

[jchauvin at cmhc-schl.gc.ca]

Hello everyone, 

My name is Jérôme Chauvin and I am a library student working for the 
Canadian Housing Information Centre, the library of Canada Mortgage and 
Housing Corporation.  I am currently gathering information to examine ways 
the Information Centre could convert its print catalogue to complete its 
online catalogue.

To do so, I am currently looking for information from libraries which have 
already carried out such retrospective conversion projects. 

If your library has converted its catalogue, would you please take the 
time to answer these few questions. Thank you in advance.

-           If the project was done by a vendor, which vendor did you use?

-       How did you proceed to update the subject headings for records 
that cannot be found in external databases (automatic update by the 
vendor, manual update when the records were key-tapping or batching update 
once records have been loaded into a database...)?[We use Library of 
Congress Subject Headings]

-       Were cross-reference cards been included in the conversion (to 
redirect a request to the proper results)?

-       Could you estimate the cost and the time taken of the project?

-       What was the scale of the quality check once the records were 
converted? Did unexpected problems occur?

Jerome Chauvin
Library Technician | Technicien documentaliste
Corporate Marketing | Marketing de la Société
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d'hypothèques et de logement (SCHL)
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