Using a library catalogue

I used a library catalogue last week in a big academic library, and it was the first time in several years that I've done this. It was clearly the latest version of the system. And maybe that was the problem. It looked Google-esque, but when I searched for a person it took me to an authority list, which was just annoying because I wasn't sure which Smith was mine. I'd rather have gone, Amazon style, to some books, and then homed in on my Smith. In the end I needed to get help from a nice librarian, so I felt a bit of an idiot, being a trained librarian.

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