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Believe it or not, I finally started this year to enter all incoming catalogs in a database by company name, subject(s), and material type(s). I admit I finally got started doing it only because I had an increase in associate time and thought it would be a good job for that new person to do during the "quiet time" that sometimes occurs over the lunch periods. but I think I will continue it next fall, with or without the extra help. We file every catalog in a file cabinet by company name and have little trouble finding them as desired for use or replacement with newer ones. It IS a lot of work considering that I only have to resort to a database search about once a month; but on those occasions, it truly has been helpful to be able to go in and find a catalog that has, say, videos on MC/NS topics or paperbacks or reluctant reader materials. Finding these things is, of course, related to the quality of the terms one inputs as subjects and material types, and I've just ad libbed so far...I could probably do better using some standard list, but I haven't bothered so far. Hope this helps. Joel Shoemaker jshoe@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu