Index cards to web DB, advice needed

[David Merchant]

Cross-posted to both web4lib and syslib-l lists, please forgive any 
duplication.

We have copies of the local paper (small paper), and the school's paper, 
we've indexed the main articles on 3x5 cards.  We'd like to have a 
searchable database to search the article titles, making it much easier for 
folk to find what they need (the present system is fairly useless).  It'd 
be great if users could search via the web.  Being somewhat cash-strapped, 
we'd like to know if any of y'all had a similar problem, and if y'all 
solved it in an inexpensive or even free manner.  Any advice is 
welcomed.  I'm looking into MySQL, but wonder if there are any other 
alternatives.

TTFN,
David
Systems Librarian, Louisiana Tech University
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