A virtual Copyright card catalog? Maybe not a bad idea.

This is a follow-up to my post of two weeks ago about making images of the pre-1978 Copyright catalog cards available online for searching just as one would search the physical cards.  More comments came in about that post than any previous one and the overall reaction was very positive.  We very much appreciate the feedback.  …

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A virtual Copyright card catalog? Tell us what you think.

Of the 25,723 drawers in the Copyright Card Catalog, more than 12,000 have already been scanned resulting in more than 17 million card images safely tucked away in Library storage.  The long term plan is to capture index terms from the card images using OCR and keyboarding and to build indexes for online searching.  But …

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How would you search Copyright records? — Building a system with you in mind

Copyright records serve a variety of information needs from finding the current owner of a work to a survey of cultural development in the United States. Users of the records approach them in different ways depending on their particular need at the moment. Similarly, there are different approaches to how we can make the currently …

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Copyright Records: Short term strategies for making them more accessible

The number of non-digital Copyright records (70 million) and the constraints on funding make the digitization of copyright records a long-term project. But that doesn’t mean we can’t make some records available sooner rather than later. We’re looking at several strategies and are eager for your feedback and ideas. First, we can demonstrate what’s possible, …

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