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
Telephone | Téléphone: 613- 748-3111
Facsimile | Télécopieur:
Email | Courriel: jchauvin cmhc-schl.gc.ca
700 Montreal Road, C1-218, Ottawa, ON
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) | Société
canadienne
d'hypothèques et de logement (SCHL)
www.cmhc.ca | www.schl.ca
Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada
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