CDA Oral Arguments: Filtering the OPAC

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--Barb Dunn

On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Jon Knight wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Rich Greenfield wrote:
> > Mr. Waxman, Deputy Solicitor General
> > [...] 
> >      Now, the definition, the accepted definition of what is patently offensive,
> > that is a term of art. It is very narrow, and it is exceedingly difficult to see how
> > it would apply to more than a handful of cards in a card catalogue, but to the
> > extent that it does, you can simply run it through some sort of word processor
> > or computer program to screen -- it's only text, after all, on cards, and if you
> > find a card that -- 
> 
> I have a sneaky feeling that most libraries already have what was once
> their card catalogues online and in many cases the cards don't exist
> anymore (and haven't for some time).  I certainly wouldn't want to suck
> out our 500,000+ works from the relation database that underlies our OPAC
> and then "simply run it through some sort of word processor". :-)
> 
> Thank goodness I'm on this side of the Atlantic for once.
> 
> Tatty bye,
> 
> Jim'll
> 
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> Jon "Jim'll" Knight, Researcher, Sysop and General Dogsbody, Dept. Computer
> Studies, Loughborough University of Technology, Leics., ENGLAND.  LE11 3TU.
> * I've found I now dream in Perl.  More worryingly, I enjoy those dreams. *
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