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Cardbox
The Bibliography is held on Cardbox® for Windows™—a data storage and retrieval system that will search, sort, and print the data as required.
Cardbox is user-friendly: i.e., the screen will usually prompt you as to the possibilities you may take advantage of (or give you instructions) and indicate the keys to press. There is also an on-line Help file.
To the left are listed reference pages which give particular information about using the Bibliography database.
In addition, certain abbreviations are used in the ‘NB’ (notes) part and in some other parts of the Bibliography, and which are needed in order to retrieve some data. For example, if you want to find items about ‘To the Lighthouse’, you need to know the abbreviation ‘TTL’.
The database
‘Virginia Woolf & Bloomsbury’ contains the ‘index cards’ which make up the Bibliography.
The Cardbox Client
To run and search the database, you require the Cardbox Client, which is available for free download. If you do not already have the Cardbox client installed, please download it now.
This link takes you to the Cardbox company’s own website. (I do not think that Apple Macs will be able to use the Cardbox client.) If you have Windows 95 or above, click on ‘Cardbox 3.0 Installer’ and follow the instructions provided.
The Bibliography can only be used when you are online. Once you have the Cardbox Client installed, double-click on the icon on your desktop, then click on File: Open. Then click on the Server tag. In the large white box on the left, there should show: database.cardbox.net. Click on that and several databases should appear in the large white box on the right, including ‘Virginia Woolf & Bloomsbury’. Highlight ‘Virginia Woolf & Bloomsbury’, then click on Open.
Tips
If you intend using the Bibliography more than once, it is suggested that you note the date in the last line of the last record, so that on returning to the Bibliography at a later date you can search for new records. For example, if the last date was 2005.10.19 (yyyy.mm.dd), use the SEARCH button to Select: Field=RF, Search for=2005.10.20:
This will select all records added after 19 October 2005 (without the colon, only records added on 20 October 2005 will be selected).
Also, keep an eye on What’s new.
While new records are added to the DB from time to time, existing records are generally neither deleted nor amended. It is (just) possible that I may have further information about incomplete existing records.
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