[Sigia-l] integrated catalogues?

[Skot Nelson]

On Oct-21-2005, at 2:55 AM, A.F. Cossham wrote:

> For students, a search result which takes minutes to provide is  
> laughable,
> when they see that what google does, it does in micro-seconds.

Is this a failing of technology, or of the sub-30 second attention  
span young kids (and I can't believe I just used that phrase, btw)  
have today?

I think that a world in which if what you want isn't ready  
immediately is not realistic. Academic research lives in a  
drastically different timeframe than google based trivia.

> The fact that each is a
> different database is indeed an excuse for it not working  
> particularly well.

Indeed. It is not, however, an excuse for presenting results poorly.  
This is but one aspect of "not working particularly well."
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Scott Nelson
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