Library Master 5.0

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Catalog All Types of Bibliographic Materials

  • Catalog books, articles, theses, reviews, works of art, audio recordings, videos, patents, musical scores, proceedings, computer software, Web sites and much more in one database.
  • Keep track of Internet sites and other online sources.
  • Design your own record types to catalog special materials.
  • Use Library of Congress or Dewey Decimal call numbers.

Create Bibliographies the Easy Way

  • Effortlessly format bibliographies in styles used by thousands of journals and publishers.
  • Library Master reads your document and automatically creates a bibliography of works cited.
  • Paste citations directly into a word processor document.
  • Microsoft Word Add-in lets you browse for records, insert citations and format citations in a Microsoft Word document without leaving Microsoft Word.†
  • Compatible with WordPerfect, Microsoft Word and other Windows and DOS word processors.

Format Perfect Bibliographies in Any Style

  • Use popular science styles such as APA, Nature, Science, Vancouver, AMA, Council of Biology Editors, American Chemical Society, Physics, Biochemistry, IEEE, and others.
  • Use widely-used humanities styles such as Chicago, MLA, Turabian, American Anthropologist, ANSI, American Sociological Association, MHRA, Marketing, Linguistic Society of America, Political Science, Society of Biblical Literature, and many more.
  • Easily design personalized bibliographic styles.
  • Bibliographies can include annotations or research notes.
  • Group references by subjects, authors ot any other field.
  • Journal names can be automatically abbreviated with standard abbreviations.

Automatically Create Footnotes and Citations

  • Effortlessly create in-text citations and footnotes in any style — numbered, author-date or detailed references.
  • Footnotes automatically use a full first citation, and abbreviated subsequent citations of the same work.
  • Footnotes can optionally use "ibid." and "op. cit." 
  • Edit a document with formatted citations and quickly reformat citations in any bibliographic style.

Microsoft Word Add-in Makes it Easy to Format Citations†

  • Library Master toolbar and menus are added to Microsoft Word.
  • Browse a database and insert Citation Markers in a document without leaving Word.
  • Format citations and bibliographies from within Word.
  • Unformat citations and convert them back to Citation Markers.
  • Reformat citations after editing a formatted document.

Organize Your Important Information

  • Manage 2 million entries per database!
  • Take an unlimited research notes for each bibliographic reference.
  • "Drag-and-drop" text from one record to another.
  • Create library catalogs, research bibliographies for a thesis or article, mail lists, research notes databases, sermon illustrations, and more.
  • Quickly locate duplicate records in databases.
  • Click on a hyperlink to display a Web page, graphics or text file.

Create Databases Easily

  • A simple Wizard leads you step-by-step to create databases. 
  • Use database templates to create a wide variety of prefined database structures.
  • "Drag and drop" fields to design custom data input forms.

Arrange Databases Any Way You Want

  • Design your database to meet your special needs — use any combination of fields and custom record types.
  • Use text, number, name, date and call number fields.
  • Unique Literature Reference Field classifies materials by references to the Bible and other ancient literature.
  • Index frequently used fields for faster searches.
  • Distribute read-only databases on CD-ROM or floppy disk with the Database Distribution Kit (available separately).

Find Information Quickly 

  • Search hundreds of thousands of records in a second.
  • Search any combination of fields with AND, OR, NOT logical operators.
  • Use equals, not equals, greater than, less than searches.
  • Use an approximate search when you are unsure about spelling of names and locations.
  • Search for a range of dates (Oct. 1995-Mar. 1997) and Scripture references (Gen. 2:5-3:10).
  • Matching search terms are highlighted in records.

Browse Your Databases Easily

  • View and edit multiple records in separate windows. Work with several databases at once.
  • View records in any sort order.
  • Select from a list of authors, titles, subjects, journals and other fields to quickly find a desired record.
  • Mark records to delete, cite, print, paste to the clipboard, copy to another database, or save as a database subset.

Sort Information in Any Order

  • Sort on up to 5 fields at once.
  • Sort anonymous works properly.
  • Character sort order can be based on any language.
  • Sorting can ignore leading articles and punctuation.

Design Any Kind of Report

  • Create an index to periodical literature or a book catalog, cross indexed by author, subject and publisher.
  • Print library catalog cards in standard AACR2R (Anglo-American Cataloging Rules) format.
  • Print book spine and pocket labels on laser, inkjet and dot matrix printers.
  • Print address labels from mail list databases.
  • Design custom reports to meet your special needs.

Save Time When Entering Information 

  • Global search and replace changes the field contents of a group of records.
  • Spell check records while entering data.†
  • Pick items from authority tables listing valid entries.
  • Select from thousands of standard journal names in sciences, medicine and humanities.
  • Copy one record as a model for a new record.
  • Enter abbreviations which are automatically expanded.

Link to Internet Information

  • Click on an Internet address to view the site in your Web browser.
  • Automatically create Web pages with any report layout.
  • Use BookWhere to search library catalogs on the Internet and send the results directly to your database.

Import From Nearly Any Source

  • Library Master imports from hundreds of sources:
    • Bibliographic CD-ROMs from DIALOG, ProQuest, Silver Platter, ABC-CLIO, Wilson, CD-PLUS, and others.
    • Online services such as DIALOG, FirstSearch, EBSCO, MEDLINE, STN, OCLC, EPIC, CARL Uncover, WebSPIRS, and more.
    • Online catalogs from NOTIS, MELVYL, GEAC, DRA, SIRS, PALS, INNOPAC, Voyager, SIRSI, and other vendors.
    • Windows and DOS database programs, such as Access, DBase, Endnote, Inmagic, Nota Bene, Papyrus, Procite, Reference Manager, and more.
  • Importing automatically moves portions of each record to the appropriate fields, removes unwanted text, changes capitalization, rearranges names and performats other data transformations.
  • Design flexible personalized import filters for almost any source.
  • Read and write MARC records used by most library catalog systems.

Share Databases on a Network

  • Automatic record locking allows several people to edit and search a database at the same time on a network.
  • Create an online library catalog or shared research database.

 

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†This feature requires Microsoft Word 2000 or later.

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