[GrowRR] New addition to the BSI website

[Ken Marks]

For all the Bromeliad Society International members on this list. There 
is a new addition to the BSI website. I have just finished creating a 
search engine for the BSI Journal 50-Year Index and have added it to the 
website under the Members Services section.

This tool searches a database of information distilled from Chet 
Blackburn's 50-Year index of the Journal of the BSI that he compiled for 
the BSI's golden anniversary back in 2000. You can type in a search term 
(or terms) and perform a very quick search of all three sections of the 
index (Plants, People, and Topics). Results pinpointing references in 
the Journal containing the selected keywords are returned (usually 
within a fraction of a second).

This service is provided free of charge to current BSI members as a 
members-only benefit. The BSI Index search tool is yet another addition 
to the growing members-only section that aims to increase the usefulness 
of the BSI website as well as provide our members with some "perks" for 
being a member of the BSI.

Current members of the BSI who do not already have a username/password 
to access the members-only features of the website are encouraged to 
swamp our Membership Chairman with requests for those credentials.



Ken Marks
BSI Webmaster