indexing
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They’re busy indexing
Pim
A recent issue of Pambu, the quarterly newsletter of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau which forms part of the Re search School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra reports considerable activity on the preparation of a cumu lative index of PIM. The report said: The member libraries of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau and the Australian National University’s Research School of Pacific Studies are sponsoring the compilation of a cumulative index to Pacific Islands Monthly covering the period from August 1945 to July 1960 (vols 16 to 30). The project is expected to extend over about three years.
The indexing work is being done by Mrs Margaret Woodhouse, a Sydney book seller and former librarian. She has had considerable indexing experience in the Pacific field.
Mrs Woodhouse was the com piler of a cumulative index to the first 15 volumes of the Pacific Islands Monthly pub lished in 1968 by the maga zine’s publishers, Pacific Publi cations Pty Ltd, Sydney. She has also done the indexes for other Pacific reference works such as the Pacific Islands Year Book, Papua New Guinea Handbook and Fiji Handbook, as well as annual indexes to
Pim.
Mrs Woodhouse hopes to be able to complete the indexing of five volumes of PIM every 12 months. When the first five volumes have been completed, microfiche or computerised copies of the index will be made for distribution to the sponsor ing libraries. At the end of the next five volumes, the first index will be superseded, on microfiche or otherwise, by a cumulative index to the first 10 volumes. Finally, it is expected that the index to all 15 volumes will be printed and offered for sale. Pacific Publications will share in publication costs.