The Updating of the Bibliography in the SIMBAD Database

The Institut d'Astrophysique's Library started inputting the bibliography in SIM-BAD in 1983. Although the principle is still the same now as10years ago { to give users a list of bibliographical references, as comprehensive as possible, for all astronomical objects outside the solar system { we will see that things have changed. The increasing complexity of the objects' nomenclature has led to the development of new tools: the info or dictionary, the creation of acronyms for new designations. The automation of some tasks (inputting the texts of references, scanning long lists of objects) is slowly but surely progressing. But the tremendous increase in the number of pages published each year will make it more and more difficult to remain up to date, mainly by shortage in manpower