I have a complaint about the online catalog. The option to search by date is flawed. On good card catalogs, one can enter the dates between which books can be filtered in a search; on Duke’s catalog, one has to choose between preselected options. For instance, I cannot limit a search to “after 1983”. I have to choose, 1980-1990, and then do two more seperate searches for 1990-2000 and 2000-2003. When will the online catagory catch up with more sophisticated libraries like Durham County??
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: It isn’t flawed–just marginally functional. It still is a lot more powerful than the DPL version–and just wait until we have the new system up next summer! (See the ILS Transition page for more info: http://www.lib.duke.edu/its/diglib/ilstrans/)