Library Master 5.0
Introduction
Library Master is a powerful, flexible and easy to use bibliographic and textual database manager. It automatically produces bibliographies, footnotes and citations for your paper, thesis or book. Catalog millions of books, periodical articles, corporate documents, manuscripts and audiovisuals.
Library Master automatically creates perfectly formatted bibliographies, footnotes and citations in any style. Concentrate on expressing your ideas while Library Master handles the details of bibliographic style. The program eliminates the tedious task of remembering the exact punctuation required for each type of reference and the differences between footnote and bibliography citation styles. Create annotated bibliographies, subject bibliographies, periodical literature indexes, book catalogs, serials lists, acquisitions lists and book spine labels. Design custom reports for your special needs.
Unlike most database programs, Library Master does not require you to know how much information will go into a field when you create the database. All fields are variable length and may contain up to 65000 characters. A database may contain many different record types, each with different fields. Hence a bibliographic database may include references to books, journal articles, articles in books, theses, reports, audio recordings, video recordings, computer programs, patents, artworks, interviews and many other types of materials. Include up to 30 pages of notes on each reference. Data entry is much like using a word processor. You can even enter accented Western European language characters. The full screen editor makes it easy to change the contents of records.
Catalog each entry under multiple subjects and find it later in a fraction of a second. Each book or article can also be cataloged under the passages of literature it discusses. This is especially useful for literary scholars studying the Bible, classical literature, Shakespeare, etc. It is also useful for ministers looking for material for a sermon on a passage of the Bible. When you search for works treating passages in these books, any reference that overlaps the desired passage will match.
The Library Master report generator is very flexible at formatting textual information. You can design a report that formats each type of record in different ways and handles exceptions such as empty fields and duplicate fields. Reports can be created in the file formats used by popular Windows and DOS word processors, including WordPerfect, Word, Ami Pro and many more.
Library Master imports from hundreds of online information services, CD-ROMs, online library catalogs and other database programs. The importing system is easily adaptable to read data from almost any source.