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Re: indexing periodicals



I highly recommend the software ProCite.  It is a database
program with pre-configured templates to handle books,
journals, multimedia, etc.   You can sort on any field,
print reports, etc.   I use it for bibliographic projects--for
example, a donor who gives us books which will probably
go into different collections but we still need a catalog of
the books.

Dean



At 08:54 AM 6/1/00 -0400, you wrote:
After spending about a week going through all of the college's
periodicals in my files to pull out materials appropriate for an
exhibit I'm doing, I am considering starting an index of the
periodicals so that in the future I can access things more easily; of
course, this will have other uses, too.

I have two questions:

1) Can anyone recommend (or not recommend) software for this purpose?
I would like software in which I could index all the periodicals in
one index, so there would need to be a field where I could enter
peiodical title as well as date, volumes and issue, and pages.

2) Does anyone who has done similar projects have any sage words of
advice for me (aside from "Don't do it! You'll go crazy!)?

Thanks for any help you can give.



Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
Special Collections Librarian/Archivist

(note change of address as of May 2000)
Culinary Institute of America
1946 Campus Drive
Hyde Park, NY  12538
(914) 451-1757
c_crawfo@culinary.edu

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