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Under the auspices of the ACPL Foundation, the project currently employs a staff of eight, including a full-time supervisor and assistant supervisor, as well as part-time encoders (indexers), editors, and request fulfillment personnel. | Under the auspices of the ACPL Foundation, the project currently employs a staff of eight, including a full-time supervisor and assistant supervisor, as well as part-time encoders (indexers), editors, and request fulfillment personnel. | ||
In the future, PERSI will be searchable at [http://www.findmypast.com/ FindMyPast.com] | In the future, PERSI will be searchable at [http://www.findmypast.com/ FindMyPast.com] | ||
== Contents == | == Contents == | ||
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=== Printing Citations === | === Printing Citations === | ||
To print selected citations from the “Article Results List” in HeritageQuest, click to display a check in the box next to each article title of interest. Once relevant citations are checked, select “Notebook” at the top of the page. From the Notebook, options to Email, Print, or Download the list of checked citations are available. A title for the list, as well as notes concerning each entry, can be added as desired before the process is complete. | To print selected citations from the “Article Results List” in HeritageQuest, click to display a check in the box next to each article title of interest. Once relevant citations are checked, select “Notebook” at the top of the page. From the Notebook, options to Email, Print, or Download the list of checked citations are available. A title for the list, as well as notes concerning each entry, can be added as desired before the process is complete. | ||
== Searching PERSI at findmypast.com == | == Searching PERSI at findmypast.com == | ||
Findmypast is a pay site after a 14 day free trial period. They have entered into a partnership with the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center to improve PERSI, by linking thousands of individual genealogical periodicals and resources to the index and allowing the original content to be accessed and connected digitally for the first time in the history of PERSI. Findmypast will be launching the PERSI data base in the future. In the meantime, Heritage Quest is the best place to search the PERSI. (Date of this entry: 22 November 2013.) | Findmypast is a pay site after a 14 day free trial period. They have entered into a partnership with the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center to improve PERSI, by linking thousands of individual genealogical periodicals and resources to the index and allowing the original content to be accessed and connected digitally for the first time in the history of PERSI. Findmypast will be launching the PERSI data base in the future. In the meantime, Heritage Quest is the best place to search the PERSI. (Date of this entry: 22 November 2013.) | ||
== Additional Tips == | == Additional Tips == | ||
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==== In Person at Allen County Public Library ==== | ==== In Person at Allen County Public Library ==== | ||
Since PERSI is created at the Allen County Public Library, the Genealogy Center has a copy of every periodical issue covered by the index. Periodicals are bound into volumes and cataloged, usually acquiring a location-based call number, but occasionally one assigned to an ethnic group or other subject focus. This puts bound periodicals on the shelves beside other books on the same subject, making it easy to find many of them simply by browsing the shelves. For example, periodicals published by a particular county historical society will be on the shelf with other books about that county. The call number and location of books on any county can be readily determined by referring to the Genealogy Center’s stack guide. The call number for any periodical title can also be identified, even in advance of a research visit, by checking the library's [http://acpl. | Since PERSI is created at the Allen County Public Library, the Genealogy Center has a copy of every periodical issue covered by the index. Periodicals are bound into volumes and cataloged, usually acquiring a location-based call number, but occasionally one assigned to an ethnic group or other subject focus. This puts bound periodicals on the shelves beside other books on the same subject, making it easy to find many of them simply by browsing the shelves. For example, periodicals published by a particular county historical society will be on the shelf with other books about that county. The call number and location of books on any county can be readily determined by referring to the Genealogy Center’s stack guide. The call number for any periodical title can also be identified, even in advance of a research visit, by checking the library's [http://smartcat.acpl.lib.in.us/?skin=genealogy catalog online] at [http://www.genealogycenter.org/Home.aspx The Genealogy Center's website]. A few keywords from the periodical title entered into the box next to “magazines” on the advanced search screen will usually find what you want. Periodical issues that are not yet bound are filed in alphabetical order in cardboard boxes along the east wall of the Eastern Reading Room. If a periodical title cannot be located in the catalog, or if a specific issue cannot be found on the shelf, please contact a staff member for assistance. | ||
==== Using ACPL Article Copy Service ==== | ==== Using ACPL Article Copy Service ==== | ||