Tamara
As you say Appleworks includes a card index/database, plus a
spreadsheet, a word processor and drawing , painting and presentation
programs. All fairly basic without all the bells and whistles of the
Microsoft equivalents, but the database is quite adequate for what you
want to do (and even if you have MS Office for Mac it doesn't include
the Access d/base). I use Appleworks for my Christmas card labels.
Try as I might I couldn't find how to get more than one page of
addresses in Word.
Once you've set up the "index card" fields you can sort on any of the
fields. It goes without saying that Title and Author are necessary
fields. I'd suggest Publication year (make it a number rather than a
date) and Subject. If when you are entering the info you type -
'tatting' or 'NL' or 'BL Bucks' or 'BL Torchon' 'Identification' or
whatever, then when you sort on Subject you will get all the BL books
together with the Beds books before the Bucks books which in turn will
be before the Honiton.... You might also have a Format field - hard
back, paperback, loose leaf in ring binder, CD..... and also a Language
field (English, German, Polish etc).
I think that you also need to have a Miscellaneous field - not for
sorting but for reference purposes (or Danek's use after your demise!)
The book concerned would probably be identified on Author sort but you
could put anything (or nothing) into that field, such as signed by
author, damaged cover, 3 loose pattern sheets...... Personally I
don't think there is much point in including the price paid ten or
twenty years ago. A second hand book is only worth what someone else
will pay for it. A note in the Miscellanous field for a rare/expensive
volume would suffice.
I just wish I had the resolve to get on and catalogue all my lace books
- and all the others. it wouldn't be the first, or the second time
that I've bought two copies of the same book!
Brenda
On 26 Dec 2006, at 17:58, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
Thanks again, everyone -- private and public "writers" -- I'm fast
acquiring some solid "meat" to chew on. Especially so Robin (here) and
Helen (private. Now I have a name for my Mac-goddes! <g>)
One note of explanation, to Jo Falkink but, possibly to others as
well. Not only am I using the Mac-proprietary software (whatever came
bundled in the Appleworks6), I *am* using a *database* program, *not*
the spreadsheet one.
Jo, your catalogue is a spreadsheet; your fields go like this:
Title Author Date etc, accross the page.
For me, that's difficult to even look at, never mind print out (say,
to take with me to a lace day to make sure I don't buy a duplicate
copy of a book I already own)
My database entries go like this:
Title
Author
Date
Etc, one field above the next. Then a break, then a new, entry of
however many lines/fields I decide to use. That sort of arrangement
produces something which resembles a traditional catalogue card, which
is what I'm used to. I could print it out and cut it up if I wanted
to, make a "hardcopy" catalogue, if I get an uncontrollable hankering
for tradition :)
However, both Jo's and Sue's in NJ (private) suggestion of using
"subject" as one of the field names is brilliant; many thanks. Why
didn't I think of that?!?!? :)
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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