Hi Eduardo,

Thanks for the input on that perennial problem of indexing.  Hank, who will
speak for himself soon, no doubt, is at <[log in to unmask]>  His home
address (snail mail) is Hank Foglino, 4 Trent Court, Smithtown, NY 11787-1266

Your idea about including a page with the index in each issue is a good
one.  You are correct about the errors too. If one were working on a single
issue only, the job would be smaller, thus less pressured and hopefully
more error free.  However, I do see one big problem with your idea...it is
that, as things stand now, I would be the one who had to do this not
insignificant added job, since American Conchologist is created, edited,
printed and mailed out from my house.  Things get pretty rough around
deadline time, and for the most part I am on my own.

But if there is a willing volunteer (or two? to check each other?) out
there, maybe we could work on the idea for the future.  The original index
for American Conchologist is one that goes back to the beginning
(1973-1991) and was done as a labor of love by Winston Barney (who,
incidentally, also made the Horseconch-horn for the 1999 COA Convention in
Louisville). Many others got in on the act, including Walter Sage, and
yours truly,  and then Publications-Chairman Betty Lipe, who kept it on her
computer and reproduced it as a huge labor of love.  Karlynn is now in that
position of Publications Chair and keeper of the Index. Updates have been
done periodically, but they never keep pace with the issuance of American
Conchologist.

There has been some talk of doing it electronically, but it would take some
serious volunteers!  However, once it was done, updating it wouldn't be
such a terrible chore.

Lynn Scheu
Louisville, KY
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>Hello Eduardo!
>
>COA is in the process of preparing an index of American Conchologist for
1997,
>1998, and 1999.  Previous indexes for 1973-1991 and 1992-1996 are
available for
>$4.00 each from Hank Foglino, COA Property Manager.  I do not have his e-mail
>address or his mailing address with me at this time--perhaps someone else
could
>post it.  His mailing address should be on the front of the COA Membership
>Address Roster.
>
>Hope this helps!
>
>Karlynn Morgan
>COA Publications Director
>
>
>
>Jose Eduardo de Alencar Moreira wrote:
...snipped.....

>> Returning to our magazine indexes subject, and borrowing Sue Garrison's
>> idea, magazines editors could include quite easily a page with all articles
>> issued with some keywords and all shells IDs listed in each article. This
>> page could be easily copied by the readers and kept in Sue's method. It
>> could also be scanned and included by the reader in a kind of data base.
>> Much much better than typing everything again, including tons of errors and
>> lefting something behind.
>>
>> Lynn, please think about it in our next American Conchologist issue. Maria
>> the same idea could be used by La Conchiglia.
>>
>> Eduardo
>>
>> -----Mensagem original-----
>> De: Andrew K. Rindsberg [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> Enviada em: Quinta-feira, 16 de Setembro de 1999 11:11
>> Para: [log in to unmask]
>> Assunto: Re: [CONCH-L] Magazine Indexes
>>
>> Eduardo is right; electronic indices are more effective than paper ones.
>> They can also be generated semiautomatically from electronic documents,
>> although I am told that they do require a substantial amount of human
>> intervention to yield a good result. (Does anyone have advice on which
>> software to use?) The editors of any recent journal certainly have all of
>> the articles in electronic form, so a volunteer could arrange with them to
>> index a few years' worth of magazine. The index would be publishable in
>> either paper or electronic form. Want to see your name in print?
>>
>> ...
>>
>> I envy Eduardo, who can have dental attention without waiting for weeks
>> first!
>>
>> Andrew K. Rindsberg
>> Geological Survey of Alabama
>
>--
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