Re: Periodical Indexing - alternatives to CPI

[Dan Robinson <dlrbnsn2@eclipse.net>]

If you really want to know about H.W. (Halsey William) Wilson, we
have a short biography at
http://www.hwwilson.com/AboutHW/history.html .  And yes, I didn't
know who he was before I started working here either <grin>.

Dan Robinson
Indexing Services
H.W. Wilson Company
Bronx, NY
drobinson@hwwilson.com
dlrbnsn2@eclipse.net



On 31 May 00, at 18:58, Earl Sande wrote:

> 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.
>

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