I suppose I ought to also invite people to contribute material on
Mexican caves to the archives of the Association for Mexican Cave
Studies.
The catalogs of the AMCS "library" are on its web site at http://www.amcs-pubs.org/library/contents.html
. The library comprises series of periodicals received in exchange and
books large enough to shelve. The archives consist of disks and paper
items that are being placed in storage cases or file folders and
cataloged slowly. A lot of the things currently cataloged are related
to the preparation of AMCS publications (original manuscripts,
original maps, photographs, etc.), but there are a lot of other
miscellaneous things such as articles from other publications
(originals or photocopies), printouts from web sites, maps, etc. It
includes three boxes of material donated by James Reddell and one box
from William Russell.
So far, I have cataloged about 300 disks and 3000 paper items in the
archives. As of now, these catalogs consist of long RTF files. I'm not
sure what good it would do to put that on the web, because people
would only be able to download the whole thing and search it with
whatever rudimentary "find" command is in their word-processing
program. It would be nice if someone could come up with a way that a
web user could display only a list of the items meeting some Google-
like search criterion. The extraction could be done either at the
server or in the user's browser. Anybody with ideas how this can be
done, please contact me. Meanwhile I will think about putting the RTF
files on the AMCS web site for whatever that's worth.
Anyway, looks like I've got another couple thousand items to sort out
and catalog, and of course the AMCS will be happy to keep any
additional material warm and dry and eventually catalog it, too. And
if anybody wants to help dig up additional things for the archives,
for example by searching my library for Mexico material that should be
photocopied and filed, welcome. -- Bill Mixon
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