5.0 Results

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 programmes
• 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

5.9 Estimated number of titles involved in these programmes (Q29 and Q35 by Q1)

Table 10

5.10 Current retroconversion programmes: sources of funding and librarians' estimates of timescale (Q10, Q34, Q34m and Q32 by Q1)

Table 11

5.11 Planned retroconversion programmes: sources of funding and librarians estimates of timetable (Q11, Q39, Q39m and Q40 by Q1)

Librarians were often unable to make a distinction between 'current' and 'planned' programmes of retrospective conversion because the programmes were ongoing and had to be budgeted for on an annual basis.

Many of those librarians with 'planned' programmes gave no indication of their expected source of funding, or the expected timescale.

Table 12 Sources of funding

	Less than 1 year	1 - 2 years	2 - 3 years	More than 3 years
Public	4	7	2	11
Government Ministry/Dept	2
School/College			1
Learned society/professional	2	4	2	3
Cathedral			1	1
Subscription				1
Educational/research	1	2		2
Museum reference				3
Other	2	2		4
Total	11	15	6	25

5.12 Number of libraries currently converting non-m/r records and/or upgrading existing m/r records of an inadequate standard (Q28 by Q1)

Table 13

5.13 Libraries which have retroconversion planned and do/do not already possess some machine readable records (Q19 and Q35)

Table 14

5.14 Titles in retroconversion programmes which are in languages other than English (Q30 by Q1 and Q36 by Q1)

Table 15 Current retroconversion programmes

Table 16 Planned retroconversion programmes

5.15 Estimate of the number of titles in non-roman scripts (Q31 and Q31i by Q1 and Q37 and Q37i by Q1)

Table 17 Current retroconversion programmes

Table 18 Planned retroconversion programmes

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