Merry Christmas
The content of this issue is the
culmination of about five months work. It is a listing of available
micro library software grilled from correspondence with producers.
No matter what Time magazine says, they are still a few folks
putting great stuff out in baggies from their garage. Keep it up.
Most of the listings are
management tools, but library instruction has been added as well.
Oh Yes, Univ Products is also included for their marvelous card
stock.
Best of 83
As far as I am
concerned, the following are the best releases of the late great
year. I had a tough time ranking them, and for sure there are
personal biases present in the list. But that’s what you’all pay
the big subscription fee to see. If you have yet to see them, I
recommend you do.
1)
Personal Bibliographic Software
2)
DB Master version 4
3)
Homeword (a new wp for Sierra/Onlinne that will blow Bank
Street Writer
off the
water) $49
4)
DIVERSIDOS
5)
Copy II Plus
6)
Rocky’s Boots (will always be on any list I compile)
7)
Pinball Construction Set
8)
Overdue Writer (new daily version)
9)
Elementary Library Media Skills
10)
SAT Prep from Burt Munk
11)
Library Usage Skills
for hardware, the Koala
pad is the sizzle
It’s A Wonderful Life
On
our last meeting of the year, I would like to thank all of you who
have given so much to our profession and to Micro Libraries At this
time of the year they always drag out that wonderfull 1946 Capra
film with Jimmy Stewart in it, and it is the only film since Bambi
meets Godzilla that has ever made me cry. I am not so sure who is
Bert the cop or Ernie the cabbie, but at the end where Uncle Billie
brings the laundry basket in, that’s the way I feel everyday when I
open up the mail. You can take all the hype and all the pressure
being put on librarian’s to buy micro systems and shove them into
Pottersville.
A season’s
greeting to all. I hope this year was as good to you as it was for
me. If it wasn’t, may the new year bring you better Karma. If it’s
a library micro problem, call us if we can be of any assistance.
Special thanks to TL for undertaking the production burdens. This
lady is “Otay”; and she can run a Xerox machine!! Also to Val and
Chuck at Black Dot for their on the new covers.
Next month we will revert to our
usual drivelings. We will not burden you with our usual statement
of responsibility.
