Dabas, Bharat Kumar(INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, February NaN, 2004)
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The paper elaborates the term Retrospective Conversion and states the need, objectives,
and scope in libraries and information centers. It discusses the methods and steps for
conversion with emphasis on planning, important questions in planning framework,
documentation and pre-conversion issues to ensure consistency and quality standards of
the information in the process. States problems and basic guidelines and a few points to
key success in retrospective conversion.
Prem Chand; Gohel, Umesh; Chandrakar, Rajesh(INFLIBNET Centre, February NaN, 2003)
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INFLIBNET has ambitious plan to connect libraries, scholars and student by providing resources spread across the country using
latest information technology tools. Collecting the entire bibliographic sources of academic libraries and providing online access
facility in the form of union catalogue of these resources is major objective of the Centre. In the past, INFLIBNET has initiated major
steps in this direction. Retrospective Conversion software is another effort by INFLIBNET, which is significant tool for libraries, who
are in the process of automation. This paper reveals about the tool developed recently by the INFLIBNET Centre for retrospective
conversion process at local level