5.0 Results

Current and planned retrospective conversion programmes: Methods used

The following results of the BLRIC study, with comparisons of some from the FIGIT study, are arranged under the following headings:

Background data
Current and planned retrospective conversion programs
Methods
Standards
Access - to items in libraries and collections - to machine readable catalogue records
Supplementary data - non-print items needing retrospective conversion - material which has never been catalogued

5.16 Libraries acquisition of m/r records from an external source - previous and current cataloguing (Q23 by Q1)

Table 19
Total	97	128
	Yes	No
Public	69	27
Government Ministry/Dept	7	18
College/School	2	4
Learned society/professional	3	40
Cathedral	1	5
Subscription	2	2
Educational/research	1	6
Museum reference	3	4
Other	9	22

5.17 Sources of/or creation of, machine readable records for retroconversion programmes (Q10 and Q33 by Q1, and Q11 and Q38 by Q1)

Table 20
	Creation by own library	Creation by bureau	Bibliographic utility	Other means
Public	44	1	11	2
Government Ministry/Dept	4	1
College/School	1
Learned society/professional	16	2	1	2
Cathedral	5
Subscription	2		1
Educational/research	4		1
Museum reference	2		1
Other	11	1	2
Total	89	5	17	4

Table 21

Library categories	Creation by own library	Creation by bureau	Bibliographic utility	Other means
Public	25	2	4
Government Ministry/Dept	2	1
School/College	2
Learned
society/professional	12	4	1	1
Cathedral	4			2
Subscription	1
Educational/research	3	1	1
Museum reference	4
Other	8
Total	61	8	6	3

5.18 Means of obtaining records for conversion - BLRIC and FIGIT figures compared (BLRIC Q10 x Q33 and Q11 x Q38 and FIGIT Q25 and Q33 x Q12 andQ13)

Table 22

BLRIC	Created by own library	Created by bureau	Bibliographic utility	Other means
Current	84	5	17	3
Planned	50	8	4	2

Table 23

FIGIT	External Sources		Use bibliographic utility

	Yes	No	Yes	No
Current	83	24	66	20

Planned	42	13	35	13

5.19 Libraries which have contributed/ plan to contribute to the ESTC and the method of contributing (Q24, Q25 and Q27i by Q1 and Q26 and Q27ii by Q1)

Table 24 Libraries which have contributed Method

	Yes	No	Titles contributed		Tape of catalogue holdings	Printout of catalogue holdings	Reference/ download

Public	13	84	6,506			10
Government Ministry/Dept	1	19
College/School
Learned society/professional	5	36	1,313			3	1
Cathedral	5	4	22,100			3
Subscription		4
Educational/research		6
Museum reference	2	5	120			2
Other	6	20	34,158		1	3	1
Total	32	183	64,197		1	21	2

Table 25 Libraries planning to contribute Method

	Yes	No	Tape of catalogue holdings	Printout of catalogue holdings	Reference/ download

Public	6	69	1	3	3
Government Ministry/Dept		17
College/School	2	3		1	1
Learned society/professional	7	25	2	4	3
Cathedral	3			5
Subscription	2	1		1	1
Educational/research	1	5
Museum reference	1	4	1		1
Other	3	13		2	2
Total	25	137	4	16	11

5.20 Libraries which have used/or plan to use published guidelines for retroconversion (Q14 by Q1)

	Yes	No	No response

Public	7	65	40
Government Ministry/Dept	1	8	19
College/School	2	4	2
Learned society/professional	7	25	33
Cathedral	1	4	19
Subscription	1	3	10
Educational/research	2	4	4
Museum reference	1	6	5
Other	3	23	23
Total	25	142	155

Table 27 Libraries which have used/or plan to use published guidelines for retrospective conversion - BLRIC and FIGIT figures compared (BLRIC Q10 x Q14 and FIGIT Q25 x Q40)

	Yes	No	No response

BLRIC	8	34	7

FIGIT	11	91	5
Total	19	125	12

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