Hi Mary Ellen, There was a project similar to what you describe here sometime before I joined the Guggenheim. What they did, however, was to enter a text entry with text type "Biography" on artists' records in Constituents, where the "author" of the biography text entry is linked to a constituent record for the bibliographic record (e.g., Grove Dictionary of Art). If you ignore the semantics of having a bibliographic reference entered as a constituent, it's a convenient solution. Another thought I've had is to enter a list of basic, common references under Attributes>Constituents in the Thesaurus Manager, and make the relevant Attribute entries on artist constituent records. This might be nice if you just want to enter a Y/N for whether or not they are referenced. Jeri ______ Jeri Moxley TMS Specialist Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 212-423-3509 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mary Ellen Guerra Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 1:19 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Bibliography - Constituent Linking Hi All, Are any of you using the Bibliography module and linking multiple constituents to a bibliographic record? At the Smithsonian American Art Museum, we consult standard artist dictionaries (e.g., Who's Who in American Art) to establish basic life information about our artists. If we look in the dictionary, we link the artist to the bibliographic record and indicate the person was or was not found in the dictionary. This is producing problems when we want to edit the links if there are more than 255 artists linked to a single bibliographic record. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Mary Ellen Mary Ellen Guerra Collection Database Administrator Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, DC 20560-0970 Tel: 202-275-1553 Fax: 202-275-1707 [log in to unmask]