Dear fellow TMS users,

I am curious to know who among you is fully using the Bibliography module to record published references for objects, and at the same time currently publishing (or planning to) publish these citations to the web. The Bib. module & the way it is viewed/accessed from the Objects module is lacking in some features, and yet seem the best way to standardize the recording of this information.

I've been playing with Crystal reports formulas to take all this data and concatenate it into a line which adheres to the Chicago Manual of Style. Pretty darned difficult when you have 2 or more authors. I'm hitting the limit on what I can do with it.

Also, how do you mark whether the link between an object and bibliography module record is a "published reference", or a "bibliography" one?

Thanks for any advice you can provide!

- Jeff

Jeffrey Smith

Assistant Registrar for Collections Information

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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MRC 707, P.O. Box 37012

Washington, DC 20013-7012

www.asia.si.edu

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