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converted as well. If the on-line system is inoperable, all of the
records will be accessible through an index which will include entries
for authors, titles, subjects, and titles of series. Copies of
the index will be placed at each terminal, and copies of the register
will be available in each room or area where there are terminals.
Phasing of the Project. In order to minimize costs and provide
for an orderly transition from present methods of bibliographic access,
the production of the on-line union catalog will be spread over
a period of time. Some of the component parts already exist, as has
been indicated earlier. The existing Bibliographic Data Base project
will have produced approximately a quarter of a million records by the
end of the current (1976/77) year, and another quarter of a mil-lion
will be available as a result of use by the campuses of on-line
technical processing systems. The Union List of Serials project has
already compiled a data base of serial records contributed by the
campuses, and is adding others through its participation in the
externally-funded CONSER (Conversion of Serials) project.
These efforts will all be continued, but will contribute to and
eventually be merged into the on-line union catalog project. The complete
phasing of bibliographic projects is outlined in Table 12. As
indicated, the initial effort will be concentrated on conversion to
machine-readable form of current cataloging records from 1973 to date.
Until the on-line union catalog is operational, the Union List of
Serials will continue to be published, and several interim union
catalogs of monographic holdings, consisting of records converted to
date, will also be produced. In the meantime, specifications for all
elements of the on-line system will be developed, and a pilot system
will be tested in 1980/81. Assuming successful operation, the initial
system will be put into use the following year. All user searching
programs will be available by 1982/83, except for the Boolean search
capability, and the system will be available to users during all hours
the libraries are open. Conversion of records from 1973 to date will
also be completed by this time, and current records from that year
forward will be added to the data base as an automatic by-product of the
technical processing systems in the campus libraries. By 1983/84, the