>Mining History Bibliography for Windows 95/98 by Roy Fellows. Available
>from Iris Computers Ltd, Green Gables, Stafford Road, Great Wyrley,
>Walsall, WS6 AX price £29.95
>
I have recently had sight of this CD and I would point out that its title is
something of a misnomer. It is NOT a mining history bibliography. What you
get is a program for creating your own bibliography. Fair enough it is pre
loaded with information on a limited number of mining history publications.
But they are poorly catalogued and you would really need to delete them and
start again. A very obvious error is that authors are listed by their
forename!! How many people would search for D B Barton under Dennys?
What you get is a fancy facade allowing you to search and display
information stored in a Microsoft Access database. Sufficient elements of
the Access application are provided to allow you to do only that and no
more. To my mind you would be better advised to put your money towards the
full Access application. Then take a little time to learn out how to
customise your own databases.
Peter
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