LibraryPI
Visual Catalog
Here we see the visual catalog's attempt at running the same search (in keeping with the theme of this blog, I typed in "Investigation"). You can JUST see the top edge of the second search result, but basically it's one title per screen. This makes actually finding the thing you want a very slow and difficult process -- worse when a librarian is helping a patron, as the person who knows what he wants is not the one holding the mouse -- especially when attempting comparison. This needs to be fixed, and there are some easy solutions.
Visual Catalog
Here we see the visual catalog's attempt at running the same search (in keeping with the theme of this blog, I typed in "Investigation"). You can JUST see the top edge of the second search result, but basically it's one title per screen. This makes actually finding the thing you want a very slow and difficult process -- worse when a librarian is helping a patron, as the person who knows what he wants is not the one holding the mouse -- especially when attempting comparison. This needs to be fixed, and there are some easy solutions.