Message-Id: <199602072333.RAA01074@library.wustl.edu> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 10:29:45 +1100 From: Tony Barry <mailto:tony@INFO.ANU.EDU.AU> Subject: Re: URLs To: Multiple recipients of list WEBCAT-L <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
At 02:07 96/02/08, M. Jessie Barczak wrote: > "... I watched some discussion fly by as I plowed though a ton of
> back email... and I want to toss a thought out. Isn't publishing a
> URL that refers to a specific bib record like telling a patron that
> they will find the card for Huck Finn in the seventh drawer from the
> top, as the 57th card in the drawer?
Nope. Its telling them what they need to put into the web viewer on their desk so that the can check if the book is on the shelf before they walk to the library.
Tony
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