April 15, 1977		
REPORT:  TEXAS PERIODICAL INDEXING COMMITTEE	

	The commitee was created by a vote of the Reference Roundtable membership
at the 1976 meeting to undertake a joint indexing project of key Texas periodicals.  
The value of such an effort was made apparent by the usefulness of Texas 70, and 
the members had repeated expressed the need for continuation of the indexing of 
state material at RRT annual meetings.

	The inital effort will be modestly limited to approximately twenty titles.
It was decided that the first step would be to identify any ongoing indexing being 
done by libraries and to poll librarians for the most needed titles to be included.

	Ann Graves, chairman of the Subcommittee to Identify Texas Periodical Indexing 
Projects, and her committee did an excellent job of collecting this information. 
Libraries in the state were surveyed and a ranked listing of 28 titles resulted.  
Of these, six or seven are already being indexed in some manner.  The committee 
has also identified existing files of retrospective indexing which can possibly 
be used as a basis of subsequent indexing of earlier years, particularly 1971 
through 1974, or for the preparation of a combined index of a few key titles 
for general information about the state. Another excellent possibility will be 
use of these files for preparation of indexes of biographical and geographical 
entries, a much needed publication.

	The major problem of a joint indexing project will be consistency of coverage.  
Use of a standard listing of terms will allieviate some of this, so the 1975-1976 
READERS GUIDE will be used as a final check list for indexing entries.

	Twenty two persons have already volunteered to actually do indexing, fourteen
libraries have indicated an interest in assisting.  These are the libraries not
represented by the 22 volunteers.  Eighteen other libraries indicated a possible
interest in assisting

	Using our ranked listing as a basis, we are ready to pair titles with indexers 
to prepare our initial volume. Present plans are to do this in two year increments, 
beginning with 1975-1976 and concurrently indexing for 1977. This may be too 
ambitious if we lack indexers.  Setting October 1, 1977 as a due date for the 
material through 1975-1976, we should have our first index ready by the meeting 
of the RRT in 1978.

	Please urge any additional volunteers to contact me, if they havenot already 
expressed an interest in assisting with the project.

	I would like to recommend that the membership be consulted about the inclusion 
of the titles that are already being indexed in this index.  Should an important 
title like Texas Monthly be excluded form this index of related material, since it 
does not have its own index but is included in a regularly produced index.  Will 
most libraries have Access?  Should the most needed titles be included in a single 
publication.

	My deepest thanks to Ann Graves and her committee for all of their efforts,

					Sincerely,

					Linda Samuels
					Chairman, Texas Periodical Indexing
							Committee

 
NOT A FINAL LIST						4-15-77

LISTING OF TITLES FROM SURVEY RESULTS RANKED BY NUMBER OF VOTES:

	Title:				Vote:	Comment:

	Texas Monthly			28	Indexed in Access
	
	Texas Parade			17

	Texas Highways			14

	Texas Observer			12	Indexed in Access

	Texas Business Review		10	"  PAIS

	Texas Parks and Wildlife	10

	Texana				10	"  Historical Abstracts

	Texas Town and City		 8

	Southwestern Historical Quart.	 6

	Texas Business			 6

	Military History of Texas &
	Southwest			 5

	East Texas Historical Journal	 4

	Texas Architect			 4

	Texas Libraries			 4	"  Library Lit.

	Texas Library Journal		 4

	D, the Magazine of Dallas	 3	"  Access

	Texas Health Bulletin		 3

	Texas Outlook			 3	Education Index ?

	Texas Quarterly			 3

	Cattleman			 2

	Chronicales of Smith County	 2

	Dallas Magazine			 2

	Dallas Morning News		 2
	Texas Register			 2
	East Texas			 2
	Texas Club Woman		 2
	Texas Historian			 2
	Texas Journal of Science	 2

 
TEXAS PERIODICAL INDEXING COMMITTEE:

Persons indicating an interest in doing indexing:

Cathy Clayton, UT Pemian Basin
Jacqueline Hambrick, TAMU Library
Eleanor Harris, Austin Public
Linda Sellers, Fondren Library, SMU
George Ann Monger, Lamar Univ
Rolin Taylor, UT, Dallas
Sandra Warne, SWLA
Charles Gilreath, TAMU
Maxine Johnson, Lamar Univ
Patricia Stinson,  Texas TEch
Angela Dierking,  Moody Library
Melinda Guthrie, Temple Public
Janis, o'D Schechter, Seguin-Guadalupe Co. Public
Tamara U. Frost, TAMU
Lois Reibach, TAMU
Leigh Evans, Victoria College
Julie Duggan, Denton
Mary Faris, TCU
Mrs. Irma Dee Everts, San Antonio College
Sharon Smith, TAMU
Don Dyal, TAMU
Sylvia Shield, WT State
Susan Hancock, PanAmerican Univ.
Linda Samuels