[Genealib] Reprinted books without indexes

[Beth Oljace]

Several years ago, a local man wanted to put out a "composite annual" for 
one of our local high schools.  It has copies of the senior pictures for 
every year from 1914-1998.  He thought that that would be sufficient and 
that people would be fine just seaching through classes until they found 
what they wanted.

Fortunately, one of our local genealogiests, a VERY persuasive woman, talked 
to him at great length and convinced him of the effiicacy of an index.  

There should be a law against NF books without indexes.  (I am an 
ex-cataloger and I also believe that anyone who writes under more than one 
name should be shot.)

Beth E. Oljace
Indiana room Librarian
Anderson Public Library
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Seslee2 at cs.com
To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:58:02 -0500
Subject: [Genealib] Reprinted books without indexes


Why do publishers reprint some books without adding indexes?  Also, why do 
genealogical publishers print new works without indexes?  I would be happy 
to pay more to make the information in these books easily accessible.

Sharen Lee
Live Oak Public Libraries
Savannah, GA
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