FA10Q1

Fall 2010 Question 1
Ranganathan has suggested that a guiding principle should be to “Save the time of the reader. In today’s environment, do library catalogs and databases “save the time of the reader”? If so, how do they accomplish this? If not, why do they not accomplish this? Include in your answer at least three features of those information sources that relate to saving the reader’s time. Describe how they function and how they succeed or fail in saving the reader’s time today.

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