Re: [BKARTS] Remember library card catalogs ?

[Claire Bolton <AlembicPrs@xxxxxxx>]

Call me a luddite, but I find the cards much easier to use than a computer  
catalogue. You can get instant results, and a much quicker search of adjacent  
records. And browsing is instant.
 
Trouble with computer searches is that you have to be very specific in the  
search criteria (assuming the program caters for the particular criterion you  
have, which it doesn't always), and it very much depends upon how the 
catalogue  has been created - i.e. how the original data has been entered. I quite 
often  find that a simple search on author or title often fails to find the book 
that  you know is in the library.
 
David Bolton
www.alembicpress.co.uk



   

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