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I especially like OPACs that supply a searchable index to images of the
original catalog cards, complete with the old markings on them that may
not become part of the final electronic catalog. HeBis-Retro does this
nicely. For example see the card for Kronhausen's 1934 SAARVOLK IM KAMPF:
http://retro.hebis.de:80/cgi-bin/make_index.pl?RPN=7278941&TRFNR=1&SID=116600977927823&SET=1&NUMBER=1
This is particularly helpful since I am trying to help the author, now 90,
find copies of official German Government notices from the 1930s and 1940s
documenting that his book was officially censored. (If any Exlibris member
can suggest official documents from the 1934-1944 period that listed
German books banned for political reasons I would appreciate that).
C.J. Scheiner
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> Another thing that happens to card catalogues is that they can be
> digitised and made searchable, giving an interim form of OPAC >pending
full retroconv.
> David Shaw