Hallo Brian,

You are perfectly right about the fact that everybody, that owns a
computer, sooner or later wants to catalogue his rolls. Probably
everybody is using different software for this purpose.

Being a WordPerfect user since those Pre-Windows times, I found
in an accessory package (WP Library) a program called Notebook.
It's primary purpose is to maintain address lists for mailing and
phoning purposes, but it turned out to be a very versatile utility,
that has a lot of features of a data base. The WP Library is no
longer maintained by WP, but I use still this little Notebook
program, which is a character oriented DOS program.
In case the formatting capabilities of Notebook are not sufficient
one can import the "data base" into (every) WordPerfect text
processing program as a so-called secondary dataset for the
so-called merging procedure and consequently generate all types
of fancy lists.

I would also like to here from other members of this list, on how
they did their catalogue.

If you need more information on my version, I will be happy to
supply whatever you are looking for.

Regards  Walter