Sharon Foster wrote:
> Yes, what Google does is vastly more difficult, but the public library
> catalog is dealing with a much more narrowly defined set of known
> items: an index of titles and authors in our collection. And a failed
> search does usually offer an index of what *is* there,
Not always as a browsable a-z index.
> ... but once again
> the user is required to type the title or author (last name comma
> space first name, please!) exactly as it is entered in the catalog or
> else the near-matches will not make any sense.
>
What you describe here is definitely not 2009 state-of-the-art. The
browsable index should certainly have clickable items.
B.Eversberg
Received on Tue Feb 17 2009 - 09:56:35 EST