TARGET: Retroactive conversion w/Precision One & Athena

[Linda Dougherty <lindou@STLNET.COM>]

Dear Netters:
Our school district is in the middle of a retroactive conversion of our
card catalogs to the Athena automation software program.  We are using
the Brodart Precision One cataloging CD software for processing our
books.  Here is our problem:  Our district administration believes that
we can take the library database from elementary school library "A" and
transfer that database to elementary school library "B" to save time
catagloging the many duplicate titles that our six elementary school
libraries own. Each book, of course, has to have its individual bar code,
vendor, date of acquistion, etc. Has anyone found shortcuts to
retroactive conversion using Athena or Precision One?  Any suggestions
for MARC record entries that might help? Two librarians and the clerk
hired for database entry have tried in our limited knowledge to find
"shortcuts" for this conversion.  Any suggestions would be very helpful.
I'll post a hit of suggestions.  Thanks.

Linda Dougherty, Librarian
Cedar Springs Elementary School
House Springs, Missouri   63051
lindou@stlnet.com

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