This article discusses microcomputer software designed to help manage bibliographic information. The software can log onto databases, simplify system commands, capture the bibliography from MEDLINE, sort the bibliography by author, journal, or subject, create and manage files, and reformat bibliographic citations according to the requirements of different journals. No one piece of software can perform all of these functions yet, but several are capable of doing one or more of these operations [1,2]. The software packages discussed below, SCI-MATE and FINDER, were tested on IBM-XT computers. Before the advent of the microcomputer, computerized bibliographic searching involved either three or six entities: (1) the information seeker; (2) the searcher; (3) a computer terminal; (4) the telephone company; (5) telecommunications networks (such as Telenet or Tymnet); and (6) the vendor mainframe computer. An additional component in the system is the database producer, each of which compiles and structures its individual database differently. For in-house databases, one can eliminate the telephone and telecommunications components, and the information seeker and the searcher are often the same person. Although when everything is working correctly, searching can look very simple, each entity has its own set of requirements and life can become complicated, especially when something goes wrong somewhere in the interconnected systems. In the past, the researcher needed to know at least two different log-on procedures (one for Telenet, and one for Tymnet in case Telenet wasn't working), the idiosyncrasies of different terminals, anything all done in a most professional manner, but the calls were at the expense of the caller. Field size limitations and the fact that records are not inextricably linked if a record is too long are also limitations in the Finder Information Tools, Inc. products. The fact remains, however, that FINDER is good for searching large files and is very easy to search once the system is set up. This is a company that has produced software because the information professionals (Aaron and Smith) needed these tools in their own information brokerage business.