Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>
> It's not clear to me that an alphabetical list of author names ('author
> browse') is the only, or even the best, way to do this. It seems to me
> that a 'keyword' search (on _authors_), followed by a presentation of
> authors who matched (hopefully taking into account "see also" headings
> in the authority record into 'matches') would serve just as well, if not
> better.
>
It was pointed out that a keyword search turns up only those
names that match. Not those with spelling variations or spelling
errors.
Would you be happy with a phonebook that has no alphabetic
listing? When looking for someone whose exact name and address
you don't know, what you do is browsing.
B. Eversberg
Received on Tue Jul 24 2007 - 07:20:38 EDT