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Dear All, This is my first email to a mailbox, so please excuse (but point out!) any excursions from accepted practice! My name is Andrew Winnell and I have just completed my second year of a BSc in Economics and Statistics at Keele University. During the Summer vacation I am taking part in a work placement scheme operated through the Southampton University Careers Advisory Service, the 'Shell Technology Enterprise Programme'. My brief is to create a system that keeps, organises, records and cross-references information from a number of different types of sources, used as reference material, for booklets and posters designed to educate and inform employees and the general public about health (including Health and Safety) issues. One of the purposes of the reference library will be to provide back-up for the educational booklets in situations where the information within them is called into question. Another purpose is to have information readily available when planning new titles, and to provide an easier means of knowing when a revision of a title is necessary. All that is really needed is a classification system and a relational database enabling searches for relevant information with a view to being accessable from the internet - the loan and return of sources are not really an issue since the number of regular users will be small. I would be very grateful for any pointers you could give me - I'd particularly like to find someone who has done a similar task so that I may not need to reinvent the wheel! And if anyone has any sources of information or useful contacts, that would be great. Thanks for taking the time to read this email, Andrew Winnell. (using the address [log in to unmask]