New Features in Library Master 3

For your convenience, the upgrade to version 3.03 can be ordered on the Internet or by contacting Balboa Software.

Version 3.03 is the last DOS version of Library Master. It is recommended that all users upgrade to Library Master for Windows, which is considerably more advanced and still under constant improvement.

Version 3.0 includes over 100 exciting new features to simplify your writing and research: automatic footnotes and citations, customizable duplicate record detection, global search and replace, advanced sorting, abbreviation tables, and importing from dozens of new sources. Library Master 3.0 will save you hours on every research and writing project.

Automatic Footnotes and In-text Citations:

• Effortlessly create footnotes and in-text citations in any style. Use numbered, author-date, full references or any other citation style.

• Footnotes automatically use a full first citation and abbreviated subsequent citations of the same work.

• Footnotes can optionally use "ibid." and "op. cit."

• Footnotes and citations can include page numbers. Page numbering is automatically changed to the proper style: 190-199, 190-9, 190f, 190ff or 190.

• Automatically create a bibliography of works cited. Include citations taken from multiple text files.

• Paste citation markers from a database into your document.

Time-Saving Editing Conveniences:

• Global search and replace changes the field contents or Record Type of an entire group of records.

• Search and replace in several fields at once.

• Copy a whole record as a model for a new record.

• Automatically remove unused space at the end of a line for consistent data entry.

• Save data entry time by entering abbreviations which are automatically expanded.

• Select items from authority tables which list valid entries.

Flexible Duplicate Record Detection:

• Quickly locate duplicate records.

• Edit or delete duplicate records. Combine abstracts from several records into one record.

• Specify any set of fields to compare for duplicates.

Easier Database Browsing:

• Quickly jump to a desired entry in a Field Contents Table. As you type letters, the first entry with these letters is highlighted. Enter "Joh" to jump to "Johnson".

• Field Contents Tables scroll to display long entries.

• Mark multiple records to delete, cite, print, paste to the Windows clipboard or save to a Record List.

Enhanced Microsoft Windows support:

• Paste formatted citations to the Windows clipboard to insert in your word processor document.

• Compatible with documents created by popular Windows word processors, including WordPerfect for Windows, Word for Windows and Ami Pro.

New Bibliographic Styles:

• New bibliographic Style Sheets include:
  • American Antiquity
  • American Institute of Physics
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
  • Journal of Marketing
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Society of Biblical Literature

• Supports widely-used footnote styles:
  • Chicago Type A
  • Modern Language Association (allows footnotes or author-date in-text citations)
  • Turabian

Automatic Abbreviation Tables:

• Use standard or custom journal abbreviations in bibliographies. Abbreviations for thousands of widely-used journals are provided.

• Define 65,000 journal abbreviations.

• Use abbreviation tables on any number of fields.

• Select items from abbreviation tables to save time and ensure consistent data entry.

More Flexible and Accurate Sorting:

• Sort on up to 5 fields.

• Sort by Record Type, such as book, journal, patent.

• Special handling of empty fields. Sort anonymous books properly.

• Properly sorts Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal call numbers.

Powerful Custom Reports:

• Enhanced Style Sheets create more accurate bibliographies and allow personalized reports.

• Style sheets allow different styles for bibliography, first citations and succeeding citations.

• Automatically add a letter to the year (1994a) for citations with the same author and date.

• Abbreviate or use full author role: "ed." or "editor".

• Format call numbers in a column or single line. Print book spine labels.

• Group references by Record Type. Separate books, journal articles, book articles and recordings.

• Include the date the database was last edited.

• Cross-index references on several fields to create indexes to periodical literature and book catalogs.

Support for Additional Word Processors:

• WordPerfect 6 for Windows and DOS

• Ami Pro 3 for Windows.

Enhanced Database Structure:

• Call numbers may use Library of Congress, Dewey Decimal or a custom format.

• Catalog conference proceedings, patents, maps and musical scores.

• Indexes may include up to 250 characters per entry.

More Powerful Importing:

• Automatically move subfields to appropriate fields with supplied macros. For example, in DIALOG move the journal, volume, issue, date and pages from the SO field to separate fields.

• Browse, edit or delete imported records without leaving the import mode.

• Import data from within the main program.

Imports from Numerous New Sources:

• New Online Library Catalogs:
  • Data Research Associates
  • SIRS

• New Online Services:
  • Datastar
  • OCLC EPIC
  • OCLC First Search
  • Paper Chase
  • STN Chemical Abstracts

• Dozens of additional CD-ROMs, including:
  • America: History and Life
  • American Theological Library Association
  • Dissertation Abstracts
  • Canadian Business and Current Affairs
  • Canadian Education Index
  • Canadian Periodical Index
  • Canadian Politics
  • Canadian Research Index
  • EconLit
  • Historical Abstracts
  • MEDLINE (Silver Platter, CD-PLUS and others)
  • Modern Language Association
  • Native North Americans
  • PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
  • University Microfilms
  • Dozens more from DIALOG, ProQuest, Silver Platter, ABC-CLIO, Wilson and CD-PLUS!

• Other database programs:
  • Citation for WordPerfect
  • Nota Bene IBID

Easier-to-Use Macros:

• Create an unlimited number of macros with easy-to-remember names.

• Dozens of macros are supplied to simplify common tasks, such as cleaning up imported records.

• Macro editor simplifies modifying complex macros.

• Optional macro can be run when the program starts.

Numerous Other Conveniences:

• Change default disk drive or subdirectory while opening files. Use wildcards to display selected file names.

• Read-only databases use simplified menus.

• Distribute databases to others with the Read-Only database distribution kit (available separately).

Library Master 3 runs on any IBM PC-compatible computer with 640K of memory, DOS 3.3 or later and 5MB hard disk space. Microsoft Windows compatible. The network version is compatible with Novell Netware, Lantastic, Lan Manager, OS/2 Warp, DEC Pathworks, Windows NT server and other IBM compatible networks.

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