Several of the titles I got using "detectives NOT fiction" with a child's reading level didn't even have any subject headings at all. I don't think poor cataloging proves much.
Also, I'm not very crazy about this SirsiDynix product which is one reason we are staying on its predecessor, Horizon, until we're forced to move and I expect that will not be to this latest SirsiDynix system.
Essentially seems like a strawman argument to me.
Michael Mitchell
Technical Services Librarian
Brazosport College
Lake Jackson, TX
michael.mitchell at brazosport.edu
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jason Etheridge
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 9:57 AM
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Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] On the importance of subject browse lists
> 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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