The Texas Speleological Survey has released the newest update to TexBib, the digital bibliography of Texas speleology. At present, there are 12,265 references in TexBib dating back to 1866, and approximately 78,000 searchable keywords. The search engine interface to the bibliography allows you to search on keywords and/or authors, with the resulting reference listing sorted by date and/or author.
The newest update incorporates over ten years of Dallas-Fort Worth Grotto newsletters that had not been previously entered, and hundreds of entries from other grotto newsletters, magazines, newspapers, and journals. The TSS library has copies of most of the journals and grotto newsletters listed in the bibliography. If you have a desire to peruse one of the references, contact one of the directors with your request or stop by during one of the TSS's work sessions that are periodically announced on CaveTex. Examples of routinely used keywords in TexBib : cave name, county, biology, geology, TARL ID (Texas Archeological Research Laboratory), bats, salamanders, geology, hydrogeology, geochemistry, archeology, paleokarst, etc.... TexBib can be downloaded free at the TSS website : http://www.txspeleologicalsurvey.org/ To properly work, TexBib requires that you be running MS Windows with MS Internet Explorer 5 (or above). If you have any questions or comments concerning TexBib, please contact Jerry Atkinson <[email protected]>. For help with program installation, contact David McKenzie <[email protected]>. Jerry.
