scott@wuphys.UUCP (Scott Barthelmy) (07/24/84)
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We are looking for a machine readable library card catalog for the physics
subjects of the Library of Congress (mostly QC, QA, & QB's). We have
approximately 13000 volumes.
We are the Physics Dept of Washington U in St Louis. We are a relatively
poor (all things are relative) department, so would like to get this free
but are willing to pay $500-1000 depending on the hit ratio.
In our efforts we have considered:
1) Buying from LoC. They don't have such.
2) Hiring a data entry company. Expensive!
3) Using optical data entry machines. Have access to a Kurzweil Reading
Machine, but according to the Kurzweil people not even their much more
sophisticated Data Entry machine will handle the messy library catalog
cards (bad page layout, too many fonts of different colors, changing
contrasts, and handwritten notations).
4) Using workstudy students for data entry. We figure 800 hours to get it
in and correct. Last resort.
If anyone has an offer or suggestions/pointers about the above attempts
please email to me:
Scott Barthelmy ihnp4!wuphys!scott