Periodical Indexing - alternatives to CPI

[Earl Sande <sandes@CODETEL.NET.DO>]

A good number of years back, I discussed with some Vancouver (British
Columbia) teacher-librarians their project of each library indexing a
certain number of periodicals and then cumulating the information.

As I recall, the project tried to index titles that were not usually found
in the commercial index.

While I think the commercial indexes are preferable (someone should raise a
statue to whoever H.W.Wilson was!) but perhaps local library groups might
consider as part of their projects cooperative indexing.

And, while close to the subject, Houston TX had another wonderful idea in
cooperation :  each library guaranteed to subscribe to a certain number of
periodicals that were useful but weren't needed in all libraries.  The
result, I'm told, was that the district then had access to the total
magazines from, for example, Reader's Guide to Periodicals and could loan
them around as required.

Earl


Earl P Sande
Elementary School Librarian
Director of Library Services
Carol Morgan School
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
e-mail :  sandes@codetel.net.do

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