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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Monster

Having nothing to do with homelessness, except that many homeless use library computers to do job searches via the Internet...

Library updated the search system. Like most anything else new and improved is not. Old and adequate much preferred. Latest search was for a movie Monster. I type "Monster" in search box and search by TITLE. Results?

Ceres, Celestial Lengend Vol. 1
The Best Short Plays 1960-1961
The Book of Other People
Get Some, Go Again
Great Short Works of Stephen Crane
Halloween Side ffects
Maggie, a girl of the streets and other short fiction
Maggie, a girl of the streets and other short fiction
No that was not a typo, the last was listed twice.
Ah, finally a TITLE with the word Monster, was next in the results. Actually several of them, one was the movie I sought. Number 22 through 27 were all:
Naaki Urasawa's Monster and number 28 was Prose and Poetry.
Notice I did not search SUBJECT and I am only assuming that all those unrelated TITLES have to do with monsters.
That is but one example why the new search system simply sucks.

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