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The Rappahannock Library’s computerized public access catalog didn’t win many converts at Friday night’s “Meet the Computer” program with David Small.
When Joyce Abell volunteered to try the computer for a search by subject matter, other members suggested she try under “poetry” and then under “collections.”
Only four books showed up under those subjects. Grace Sims, a Library Board member w’ho had done a lot of cataloging for the library using the old card system, was horrified. She knew that the library had many more collections of poetry. However, the books were not cataloged that way in the computer program, which is based on the Library of Congress system.
A second search under “Civil War” produced a list of over 300 books, a listing that took many computer screens to show. It began with a long listing of books intended for
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