Re: On the importance of subject browse lists

From: Jason Etheridge <jason_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 10:57:05 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Actually, maybe my answer in this case did not be the subject browse
> list, but in that case, I wonder what the alternative would be.  I can't
> think of another good way to have done it (but if you tell me one, I can
> check online today) - to have helped me from being unproductive.  : )
> Even if I wasn't a cataloger, I'd feel this way. : )"

In the Evergreen instance that Georgia PINES is running, I went to
Advanced Search, entered detective into a keyword field, selected
Non-Fiction from the Literary Form filter, and Juvenile from the
Audience filter.  All the results seemed "relevant".

Browse lists of the sort that librarians like are coming, though.

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Received on Wed Jun 09 2010 - 10:58:30 EDT