Laura Weston-Elchert

 

Fort Wayne News-Sentinel

 

 

 

* We get lots of calls from readers asking when a certain recipe ran in the paper. Because we don't archive wire stories, we were always leafing through the paper to find the recipe. To save time, we created a "Recipe Index" in our internal SAVE archive. Each week a librarian adds the name of the recipe and the page number. Not only has it saved time in the library, but it has helped our Features department, too.

 

 

 

* We were answering the same reference questions over and over, i.e. Who was mayor in 1973? Who was police chief in 1928? etc.... It took a little time to compile, but we created lists of all our past governors, mayors, police chiefs, fire chiefs, and other assorted lists and posted them on our intranet.

 

 


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