Weinheimer Jim writes
> This is a rat race that libraries should do their best to avoid.
I am sure they will heed to your advice. When have libraries ever
taken part in a rat race? ;-) And in the slow march towards engine
visibility, they have not even started to get moving. If a search
engine can find that I live in Jackson Heights, NY, should it not
point my query to "Moby Dick" say, to the copy of it in a close-by
public library? It won't be able to. Library catalogs are not
visible to search engine crawlers unless libraries prepare a
complete browsable index to their holdings on the public web. I am
sure it's not difficult to set up such pages. It would probably take
me a couple of hours to do it for Koha, the system I am familar
with, to set up an ugly and primitive one. Please correct me if I am
wrong, but it does not apppear to a standard feature of ILS
software. It ought to be.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1
skype: thomaskrichel
Received on Sun Feb 13 2011 - 11:12:37 EST