Improve Searching In Aprl Digital Library Coming Soon

Kirk Gillis, Executive Director of APS. made a statement earlier about improving the search of the APRL library and within a short period APRL has announced an update.

The current search is quite crude.

Very positive news.

Glad to see the APS is upgrading APRL.

Great news. Really important resource not just for searching APRL but a host of other libraries that I'm a member of, too.

I hope so. I tried the other week to search for some information and as usual I either cant figure it out or it's broken! I got no results at all for information on DP45 - 1867 2d blue colour trial information ( Great Britain ). THEN, try and get someone on the phone - good luck with that. Fingers crossed.

Let's hope that they have implemented the changes required for a smooth interaction with the database.

My biggest gripe is that digital results are shown in the order of the number of copies held for a title. As the database titles increase it gets ever harder to find the title that you are searching for. Who on earth expects search results in that order when we have a perfectly good alphabet!

That said, it is a valuable resource accessible from home or office, which is terrific. GLENN

Update to my email of moments ago... I have just accessed the digital library today and a) the new system is live and b) the search results are in alphabetical order. Yeah! GLENN

At least you get results. Im going to try my search again today. I contacted reference desk for help last week and no update yet….. But, its only been 3 days.