[155] in Information Retrieval
Re: Barton on Willow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Saylor)
Mon Mar 29 13:40:47 1993
To: ninadm@Athena.MIT.EDU, elibdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 29 Mar 93 11:25:29 -0500.
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 13:40:13 EST
From: John Saylor <jsaylor@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Does anybody else find the formatting of authors' names troublesome?
For example, do an author search on "chomsky, noam" and Willow tells
you that it finds nothing. You have to leave out the comma. To me
this seems counterintuitive (but then perhaps I've just been hanging
around *traditional* libraries too long :-)!)
I agree. A more helpful search "engine" would allow you to type in an
author's name with or without commas.
