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As long as you're taking suggestions, since many of the books are quite old, adding a publication date or date range to the search functionality might be nice.
by 0x0203 5mo ago
As long as you're taking suggestions, since many of the books are quite old, adding a publication date or date range to the search functionality might be nice. I personally would find it very useful since I have a tendency to look for things that are older than year _x_ when researching various things.
Thanks for all the effort put into the site!
- gluejar 5mo agoonly 20% of our books have original publication data in the db. We have a project to add another 40% or so from another database, let us know if you want to help.
- sgc 5mo agoI have the same problem on catholiclibrary.org, but insist on having something as the book date for every work. My solution is to temporarily default to the author dates until the book date can be refined. If there is no known author date I at least have a date range, hopefully to century or better. Author dates are a much smaller data set, can be generally supplemented from public marc records (viaf, loc, etc - I don't do that, but it's an option) and at least provide basic filtering / sorting.