The Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society Library Catalogue web pages are generated automatically from the Society's Library Catalogue Database. The database is constructed using Microsoft Access 2000 and records for each publication:
An Access procedure can be invoked at any time to generate a page to serve as a contents page linking to the pages for each category and a separate HTML file listing the holdings within each Category. These files are ready for publication without any further editing. The production of each page consists of three components. First the header information is created to include the HTML page title and META tags (which will assist web search engines in indexing the pages) and puts in place the page Heading and descriptive text. The title and shelf code are then listed alphabetically for each item within the category. Finally, the page footer is written to close the page. This includes a date stamp taken from the PC system clock to show the date the page was updated from the database (this minimises the uncertainty which might be introduced between obtaining the data and the page being published).
[New 13 May 2005 - John Marsden]