Martha Yee wrote:
> Unfortunately, LC's basic search forces the user to choose a type of search
> first before the search is done. What I was trying to suggest was that if
> you let the user type a search into the search box and produced a list of
> all headings (of all types) that match, you could save the user from having
> to guess up front, for example, which index to choose for Rocky Mountains or
> Bugs Bunny.
>
Exactly. And it is certainly doable. This should be high up in the
category of things Tim Spalding described with
"... Figure out what you do that digitization and social media doesn't
or can't do well."
B. Eversberg
Received on Sat Aug 04 2007 - 02:07:33 EDT