On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
We are ready to migrate the web site to the new fast file server.
Also some slight changes were made to the online catalog to make it better cacheable:
I have an issue with the way that following an author name from a bibrec page leads to an anchor in a "author by first letter of last name" page. To me, this does not look like a long-term solution. It could work for a while, but as the collections continues to grow, these files will inevitably get too large to be easily useful for general browsing. Take a look at the New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors where Phillip has begun to break some of the files of author records into smaller sub-groupings. We could certainly do something like that here as well, but that would create extra work to identify which files are largest, and what the best way to split them up would be. Andrew