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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00951R000200060032-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 32
• Content Type: MISC

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LC had long-range plans for studying the feasibility of converting its card catalog
to computers, and since an increasing number of libraries were converting to its
system in order to be able to utilize the IC printed cards for their catalogs, the
decision was made to convert to LC. The recataloging, begun in 1959, was estimated
to take ten years, but ~;~rrrnPn ah1aMz~.,a;_C._.Lbra+trter}vgers completed
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In the course of their work the CIA Library catalogers found several
areas where the IC system of classification was neither in sufficient depth nor
specialized enough to satisfy CIA needs. Adaptations were prepared and used by the
library and issued as a publication, Subject Headings and Classed Schedules for
pr-i r to d- ,ca rdi i rl.tc the ca to l dig by a .tho r,{
usually Ieveraf-iub.jegfts.
CIA Library also initiated a separate- catalog where the printed cards were arranged
by?_are.aas-wel.l, in view of the increasing emphasis on the arrea approach in `CIA L1
OCR policy with regard to the use of computers for retrieval o
open literature was to watch developments in this area but to concentrate on
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intelligence documents processing. The CIA Library participafedlin this program
but did provide senior staff d t s to the program, along with
positions, as described in Chapter XI.
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