[Web4lib] MS books - California

[Leslie Johnston]

I was curious to see this so I searched for "California."

I got a results display that said I was seeing "1-5 of 
thousands."  As i scrolled through, sometimes there was a major, 
major lag in painting the hits on the screen, and updating the 
display at the top ("59-64 of thousands").  I scrolled all the way to 
the end, and got "246-250 of thousands" and no way that I could 
discover to move on.

Curious and annoying.

Even more curious is that I didn't see any like Karen described -- 
everything seemed to have "California" in the title or subject.  I 
didn't see any with the circ slip text.  Someone is paying attention 
to complaints, at least today.

At 02:54 PM 12/6/2006, Karen Coyle wrote:
>Bruce Sterling has a great line in "The Hacker Crackdown." He says:
>"Unfortunately, computers are also stupid. Unlike human beings, 
>computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate." (p 30-31)
>
>So I went onto Books Live (interesting ambiguity there depending on 
>how you pronounce l-i-v-e) and did a search on the word "california" 
>because I figured it would get me something. It did. It got me a lot 
>of books that have nothing to do with California, but which have on 
>the inside of their back cover a glued in flap of paper that reads:
>
>UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY
>BERKELEY
>THIS BOOK IS DUE ON THE LAST DATE STAMPED BELOW
>Books not returned on time are subject to a fine of 50c per volume after the
>third day overdue.... etc.
>
>KC
>

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Leslie Johnston
Head, Digital Access Services
University of Virginia Library
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/das/
johnston at virginia.edu