New Topic!

[Lissa Richman Evms <RICHMAN -at- PICARD -dot- EVMS -dot- EDU>]

I am interested collecting ideas for reformating an institutional manual
which is published annually in an effort to list brief information on each
"sponsored" research project.

Background:

Institution - medical school with @2,000 facutly members who participate
              in research as principle investigators or co-investigators.

Book Format - cover page, intro, ect.
              table of contents (each department is listed individually)

Department Format - Faculty members are listed under the department heading
              and the projects that those facutly members initiated are
              formatted in this way:

      ARAVICH, Paul M., M.D./Ph.D.
      National Institutes of Health
             "Title of the Very Complicated and Hardly Understood Grant that
             was Funded by the NIH in the Last Fiscal Year"

             Lay person description in about 5 sentences of text.

So, here is my problem:  Increasingly, people are requesting the manual to be
indexed by keyword, co-investigator, and investigator!

Since we currently do not track the co-investigator's name, nor do we note
keywords with all funded projects.... I cannot rely on the database.

Any suggestions regarding this format?
More importantly, any recommendations of an indexing program that is not
to expensive (AND DESIGNED FOR A NOVICE AT THE TASK)?

Thanks for your help!

****please reply directly to me!  if you are interested in the responses
that I get, I will gladly report them to you!  I am asking this because
I know that I am not the only one who is overcome with 43+ messages when
returning from a meeting!!!!


Lisa Richman
Research Programs Coordinator
Eastern Virginia Medical School