[544] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Re: Post-Boolean OPACS (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JENNIFER A. HEISE)
Fri Jun 19 16:07:38 1992
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1992 10:21:58 CDT
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
From: "JENNIFER A. HEISE" <jahb@Lehigh.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
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Here's a suggestion. Why not have a comments field or some such in which the
users could add 1) additional subjects, 2) votes for best or 3) just notes?
This could be searchable either free-text (as in subject search) or as a
modifier. One of the main problems with catalogs in this day and age is that
sub-genres of popular literature either don't have subject headings or the
cataloger doesn't consider it important enough to use them-- i.e., exercise
for fat people; codependency; etc. Keyword searching often doesn't help
either in such cases. Just an idea.
Jennifer Heise
Reference Dept., Bitnet: jahb@lehigh
Fairchild-Martindale Libraries #8A Internet: jahb@ns.cc.lehigh.edu
Lehigh University Phone: (215)758-3072
Bethlehem, PA 18015
My opinions are my own. No one else would HAVE them anyway.
