  The construction of baryonic operators for determining the N* excitation
spectrum is discussed. The operators are designed with one eye towards
maximizing overlaps with the low-lying states of interest, and the other eye
towards minimizing the number of sources needed in computing the required quark
propagators. Issues related to spin identification are outlined. Although we
focus on tri-quark baryon operators, the construction method is applicable to
both mesons and penta-quark operators.
