Just a quick, irrelevant, note: as part of my questionnaire about
different searching styles of our users (National Library of Wales) I
threw in this statement "
/Bring back card catalogues! /I find using an online catalogue
difficult. I don’t understand the system or the terms used, I find the
input text boxes hard to use, and the lists of formats, languages, and
so on are confusing.
Of 29 respondents, 5 agreed with it, 17 disagreed, and 7 were ambivalent.
Roger Fenton
Ross Singer wrote:
> While we're talking all 80/20 here... how many of your users lament
> the passing of the 'card catalog'? Would you really suggest bringing
> that back for the, what, 10% that pines for it?
>
Received on Thu Jun 15 2006 - 09:50:26 EDT