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Re: Searching the electronic catalog
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew, Bill)
Fri Oct 6 20:02:32 2000
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From: "Drew, Bill" <drewwe@MORRISVILLE.EDU>
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There is one problem with this question and this type of research, every
catalog I know of has a default search mode. MultiLis via telnet for us is
by title; via Web2 Z39.50 interface it is keyword. Also, are you talking
about known items which would apply to author/title/ISBN preferences? Most
of our students asking for help are ususally looking for a topic or subject.
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