(17-04-2020, 11:03 PM)arca_libraria wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
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The BL is absolutely dreadful. They have three different text catalogues and two different image browers/digitisation phases. Their image browser doesn't have a thumbnail view, but it's one of the quickest out there for turning pages and zooming in. The BL search function has two modes of operation: it will either return 9000 items of which 3 are relevant and they're on pages 4, 16, and 92 of the results, or it will pretend it has never heard of books as either a concept or a physical object.
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This is exactly my experience, as well. You can know the exact shelf number and if you go through regular search, good luck finding it. Either too many hits or none. The only way to get at it is Browse, but they have two Browse areas and one does not have the drop-down for the collection.
If you don't know the exact shelf number, same problem applies.
And trying to find the full-view version rather than the Detail View (which I dislike) is sometimes quite difficult. I don't know why they have both. It's the same information and they wouldn't need the Detail View at all if they would only add thumbnails to the full-view version.