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 -- ************************************************************************* Marc Truitt University Librarian, voice : 506-364-2567 Mount Allison University e-mail : [log in to unmask] Libraries and Archives fax : 49 York Street cell : 506-232-0503 Sackville, NB E4L 1C6 "There is a grave inconsistency between the requirements for academic excellence and professional achievement and the student-pleasing priorities of the youth-centred realities of our time. It remains to be seen what gives first: the standards and requirements of the academy or the expectations and demands of young people." - Ken Coates and Bill Morrison, 2011 ************************************************************************* -- ************************************************************************* Marc Truitt Associate University Librarian, Bibliographic and Information Voice : 780-492-4770 Technology Services e-mail : [log in to unmask] University of Alberta Libraries fax : 780-492-9243 Cameron Library cell : 780-217-0356 Edmonton, AB T6G 2J8 But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream And the steel rails still ain't heard the news The conductor sings his songs again, The passengers will please refrain This train's got the disappearing railroad blues. -- Steve Goodman, 1970 ************************************************************************* -- ************************************************************************* Marc Truitt University Librarian, voice : 506-364-2567 Mount Allison University e-mail : [log in to unmask] Libraries and Archives fax : 49 York Street cell : 506-232-0503 Sackville, NB E4L 1C6 "Well, I left my happy home to see what I could find out I left my folk and friends with the aim to clear my mind out Well, I hit the rowdy road and many kinds I met there Many stories told me of the way to get there..." -- Cat Stevens (1970) *************************************************************************