Proposed reference tool

[janemcgary]

I'm sorting a huge collection of alpine/rock gardening journals going back as far as the late 1930s. I can't bring myself to throw them in the recycling bin; they've been through too many great gardeners' libraries. Nowadays, the North American Rock Garden Society, the Alpine Garden Society, and the Scottish Rock Garden Club have made their back volumes available in digital form. This would include indexes. However, I wonder if it would be useful for me to make a bibliography (not annotated), by genera, of useful geophyte articles from these journals, so enthusiasts could go quickly to the online pages. It would be a winter project (we all need them), and I'd learn plenty. What do you think? I'm a very experienced bibliographer -- worked on Oxford UP's online reference bibliographies for years.

[Diane Whitehead]

I would find it useful.  My own collections of those journals start at about 1970.

[Robert_Parks]

That would be lovely.

For me, no winter projects, because I don't really have a winter, the garden can be utterly demanding year round.

[Uli]

Hello Jane,
That is a brilliant and sustainable idea. This way it would enable anybody to easily access interesting literature. 
Thank you very much for taking the effort and time to do this.

Uli 

[janemcgary]

Thanks for the encouraging replies. Now I have to test a few articles (using e.g. genus+author) against Google to make sure I'm not just duplicating the effort of massive search engines.

[Michael Mace]

I'm late with my reply, but I wanted to add that I also think it's a great idea.