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Henthorne, Eileen – Information Technology and Libraries, 1995
Describes a project at the Princeton University libraries that converted the pre-1981 public card catalog, using digital imaging and optical character recognition technology, to fully tagged and indexed records of text in MARC format that are available on an online database and will be added to the online catalog. (LRW)
Descriptors: Character Recognition, Databases, Indexing, Library Catalogs