Book Meme
WheelieCatholic was nice enough to tag me on this. Don’t think I should have done it at work; the results are perhaps not quite average:
Rules:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
Improving Online Public Access Catalogs, by Martha M. Yee and Sara Shatford Layne.
2. Open the book to page 123.
Got it. (Just missed that chapter bibliography, whew.)
3. Find the fifth sentence.
Got it.
4. Post the next three sentences.
Users may not expect to have to invert names in an online system, so a keyword search of personal names that does not require the words in the search to occur in a particular order is useful. However, it does mean that a search on Frederick Lewis will also retrieve Lewis Frederick. The best solution would be to use form fill-in for novice users, and inversion and commas for more experienced users, to get the user to identify the surname and forename elements of the name.
5. Tag five people.
Gee, is anyone left to be tagged? Anyone want another round?
Let’s try Jonathan, Kasia, Ironic Catholic, Kathy of Editor Mom, and Athanasius. Hope you’re surrounded by less abstruse works.
