On 2012-09-20 14:39, Karen Coyle wrote:
> What is the net result of the fact that users don't go generally
> beyond screen 2? (In the U of Calif catalog, it meant that no one
> looked beyond items  with a author whose name sorted in the A's.)

Umm... (even more) crappy scholarship?

- mt

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