About the AIS Bulletin (updated December 31 2012)
IRISES-The Bulletin of the American Iris Society: information
AIS Bulletin Index: a reference index of all previous AIS Bulletins
IRISES
The
Bulletin
of the American Iris Society
Photo: example cover of a previous AIS Bulletin
The AIS Bulletin is published quarterly with issue cover dates of; January, April, July and October. The official publication of the AIS typically has a composition of approximately 60-70 pages, a size format of 8 1/2 x 11 and includes color photography. Contents include; activities of the AIS, growing and hybridizing different types of irises, reviews of show gardens, awards of top irises, people in the iris world, information about conventions, iris shows and administrative information about the AIS.
The AIS Bulletin is provided free to all AIS members as a benefit of membership. There are no public subscriptions offered. To receive an AIS Bulletin, you must be a member of the AIS. For full AIS membership information please click here: AIS membership information
AIS Electronic Membership: (January 2012) The AIS Bulletin is available with Emembership. The AIS announces a new membership service - electronic membership. Emembership is separate from the normal AIS membership. Emembers do not receive printed copies of the AIS Bulletins. Instead, they have access to online AIS Bulletins using an easy to use viewer. Emembers also have access to online viewing of The Basic Iris Culture booklet and access to irisregister.com, the online database of iris registrations and introductions. Additional services may be made available in the future. Please see the Electronic Membership information area of the website for more details on this membership option. You may purchase an AIS Emembership through the AIS Membership information area of the website.
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AIS Bulletin Index
AIS Bulletin Index
All previous issues of the AIS Bulletins are in the process of being
indexed for reference. This is an ongoing project by a group of
enthusiastic volunteers.
The index is a bit more than just a table of contents. In addition to listing the articles, it includes an index entry for each individual, color, iris photo. For each article, if the title and/or subtopic don't describe the contents well, additional keywords are put in a description entry. The intent was to make the index searchable for things that people would normally look for. For example; everything written by a specific author/hybridizer or every reference to a particular variety of iris.
Though by no means complete, the entries
gathered by industrious volunteers to date can be downloaded here. There
are three file versions: a PDF version, an Excel file version and a Tabbed Text file version of
the database. Choose the version that suits your needs best.
Description
All three versions are updated as of December 2012.
In the PDF version, the text can be searched using the "Find" capability
of Acrobat. The PDF version requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Click here to download the PDF version: AIS Bulletin Index (PDF)
In the Excel file, the data is in the sheet/tab called "Database.” This
is sortable and searchable using the tools within Excel. Another
sheet/tab called “Info” explains the fields, the abbreviations and other
info about the format. The Excel version requires Microsoft Excel.
Click here to download the MS Excel version: AIS Bulletin Index (Excel)
Alternately, you can download a "Tabbed Text" copy of the
same data:
Click here to download the text version: AIS Bulletin Index (txt)
Issue Numbers
Issue numbers 1 thru 366 are currently within the index, this covers the years from 1920 through to 2012. If you have
any of the issues that are missing and would like to assist or
donate them to one of the volunteers, please contact Janet Smith at: aisslides@irises.org
Thanks to all the volunteers who have worked on compiling this
data.
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