The Bodleian Catalogue as Machine Readable Records

Abstract

The Bodleian Library has undertaken, not as an experiment, but on a full production basis for the next five years, the conversion of its pre‐1920 catalogue entries to machine readable records structured for handling by computer. The poor state of the public catalogue of its pre‐1920 books and the uncompleted revision of the library staff's copy of that catalogue presented a situation to which some rapid solution was essential, and it seemed likely that the solution might be found in computer processing.

Citation

Brown, P. (1969), "The Bodleian Catalogue as Machine Readable Records", Program: electronic library and information systems, Vol. 3 No. 2, pp. 66-69. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb046600