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ERIC Number: EJ538023
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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ISSN: ISSN-0008-820X
Vatican Library Automates for the 21st Century.
Carter, Thomas L.
Catholic Library World, v65 n2 p32-34 Oct-Dec 1994
Because of space and staff constraints, the Vatican Library can issue only 2,000 reader cards a year. Describes IBM's Vatican Library Project: converting the library catalog records (prior to 1985) into machine readable form and digitally scanning 20,000 manuscript pages, print pages, and art works in gray scale and color, creating a database accessible to scholars throughout the world via the Internet. (PEN)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Databases, Electronic Libraries, Internet, Library Automation, Library Collections, Machine Readable Cataloging, Optical Scanners, Religious Libraries, Retrospective Conversion (Library Catalogs)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Catholic Church; Digitizing; IBM Corporation; Vatican Library