Re: ARHS Bulletin Index

[Roderick Smith <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

The Bulletin index was an intellectual and publishing disaster, with a
bizarre semiclassified index from which I can rarely find articles which I
know exist (the basic indexing was via the title; AFAIK the history of
North Melbourne loco depot is found under A, because the title was A
history of North Melbourne loco depot!).  It couldn't be found from North
Melbourne or loco depot or even Government Railways Vic).  At least the
downloaded textfile can be searched via a wordprocessor function, as this
is the only way I have found some items.  The printed index was printed in
all capitals too - very space consuming and unreadable.
Unfortunately, the current file is simply the older one on a computer;
there is not yet an index for post 1988.

Geoff Lambert wrote:
It seems that this could be transformed into a biblographic database

> or a spreadsheet, which would aid searching, sorting, etc.  But there
> is a hint in it that it started out this way before being transformed
> into a Word document..
> Did it?

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Regards
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor