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FROM: "Waznis, Betty" <[removed]@sdcl.org>
REC'D: 12/14/00, 11:03 AM
Betty Waznis
San Diego County Library
FROM: [removed]@DAYTON.LIB.OH.US
REC'D: 12/14/00, 12:49 PM
I wante
FROM: Viccy Kemp <[removed]@ci.carrollton.tx.us>
REC'D: 12/14/00, 1:02 PM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Waznis, Betty [[removed]@sdcl.org]
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 10:42 AM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Romance database
>
> I wonder if any of the romance experts on Fiction -L have ever used the
> CD-ROM database called Byron. One of our customers inquired about it. I
> looked at its web site www.byronref.com. Described as a database of
> 40,000
> romance novels, searchable by author, character names, setting, time
> periods, themes. I took a look at it and I can see that it is pretty much
> a
> one-woman production, has a friendly home-grown look, not something I
> would
> ordinarily think of as a likely acquisition. On the other hand, a lot of
> romance novels are below the radar, bibliographically speaking, and it is
> not easy to find this kind of detailed data for many romance novels on
> What
> Do I Read Next, etc. Could you let me know if you have ever used it and
> did
> you like it? Could you see it being used successfully in a public library
> setting? Thanks in advance for any information.
>
> Betty Waznis
> San Diego County Library
>
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FROM: [removed]@DAYTON.LIB.OH.US
REC'D: 12/14/00, 1:10 PM
I hope I helped you some. I will go home and look at it again. I do agree
that romance novels are poorly indexed but I don't think this is an adequate
answer. It is a great achievement since it is a one-woman achievement.
Jan Nottingham
Miami Township Branch
Dayton and Mont. Cty. Public Library
[removed]@dayton.lib.oh.us
>I wonder if any of the romance experts on Fiction -L have ever used the
>CD-ROM database called Byron. One of our customers inquired about it. I
>looked at its web site www.byronref.com. Described as a database of 40,000
>romance novels, searchable by author, character names, setting, time
>periods, themes. I took a look at it and I can see that it is pretty much a
>one-woman production, has a friendly home-grown look, not something I would
>ordinarily think of as a likely acquisition. On the other hand, a lot of
>romance novels are below the radar, bibliographically speaking, and it is
>not easy to find this kind of detailed data for many romance novels on What
>Do I Read Next, etc. Could you let me know if you have ever used it and did
>you like it? Could you see it being used successfully in a public library
>setting? Thanks in advance for any information.
>
>Betty Waznis
>San Diego County Library
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
FROM: "Karen Stefanik" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 12/18/00, 3:05 PM
I do wish it had more sophisticated searching though. For instance, you can
match one character's name to another and find out what book they were both
in, but you can't match a person's name with a location or a plot-point.
(My version is from 1998 or so; I don't know if this has been updated or
not)
But stil, I have found it very useful both for discovering/rediscovering
books and for keeping a personal inventory.
Hope this helps.
Karen
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Waznis, Betty [[removed]@sdcl.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 10:42 AM
> > To: Fiction_L
> > Subject: Romance database
> >
> > I wonder if any of the romance experts on Fiction -L have ever used the
> > CD-ROM database called Byron. One of our customers inquired about it. I
> > looked at its web site www.byronref.com. Described as a database of
> > 40,000
> > romance novels, searchable by author, character names, setting, time
> > periods, themes. I took a look at it and I can see that it is pretty
>much
> > a
> > one-woman production, has a friendly home-grown look, not something I
> > would
> > ordinarily think of as a likely acquisition. On the other hand, a lot
>of
> > romance novels are below the radar, bibliographically speaking, and it
>is
> > not easy to find this kind of detailed data for many romance novels on
> > What
> > Do I Read Next, etc. Could you let me know if you have ever used it and
> > did
> > you like it? Could you see it being used successfully in a public
>library
> > setting? Thanks in advance for any information.
> >
> > Betty Waznis
> > San Diego County Library
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