[bookshare-discuss] Re: Lists by Category
- From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 07:47:40 -0400
Hi all,
Ah, Gary, but the system could be used to categorize the books
accurately. If it were used by the computer, it would accurately file
books under categories which are already fixed by the system, and
therefore, it would make filing of the data easier. The user might
not need to see the number, although it might be used as an alias for
the file-name. All I'm asking for is that if Bookshare's going to be
an official library, that it use the same methods of organization
which other libraries use so that material can be organized properly.
It would, in fact, make things like inter-library loan/retrieval
possible. It would allow someone in a local library, at a terminal
adapted for the print handicapped, to search bookshare and find
material which was filed in the local library's computer under the
Dewey Decimal System, and match it with the same title on Bookshare.
It would allow people at the regional libraries for the blind to do
the same thing. They put in a number, they get a yes or a no back.
It would even, horror of horrors, if Bookshare ever because
international allow for convenient searching by librarians and users
in other countries because the system is a known quantity. In other
words, if you're going to do it, do it right!
Ann P.
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