IE and Edge go into crash-dive

[BarracudaUAK]

Originally Posted by vienna

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I, too, miss the old index card files that used to be in libraries and have found the 'improved' digital lookups to be ma bit frustrating at times; if a patron is not really familiar with database search techniques, they can miss out on relevant information; an added problem is the quality of the conversion; here in LA, volunteers, of varying computer and typing skills, were used to manually enter the paper card data into the database; typos of all sorts resulted and, unless, you know try variant searches, some items will not show up. On a plus side, an artistic use for the old cards have been found:
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My problem on the PC/website system was when I looked for a title or subject, such as "submarine"... I got nothing.

I tried multiple variations on the names of books I had checked out before... nothing.

I went to the shelf and pulled a book that I had read, went back to the PC, and entered the Library # on the spine of the book into the search function provided for that
(Mainly there to tell you which shelf the book was on), it didn't show up.

According to the system, it didn't exist.
I'm thinking, "it *does* exist because I'm holding it in my hands!!!!"
Hop over to the 'no longer updated, but not yet removed' dumb terminal, and guess what?
The book exist *AND* told me the exact shelf I just grabbed it from!

I logged out of the PC, hopped on the Terminal, and started digging.


I also went back to the old way of doing it... I walked around and looked at the books on the shelf.
Found some REALLY good ones that way.


Later they did get it working. But the primary problem was that the server for those PCs also served the Library's "new" website. So you could search for books at home.
It couldn't handle the load, so it would crash, and render the whole thing useless.


Barracuda