On 6 March 2010 06:35, Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> wrote:
One example is that the paid for support listing is now back to alphabetical, which usually almost no-one wants. Great for Anant and BibLibre - bad for software.coop and Tamil.
No sorting option will be "equal" under this definition. Alphabetical is at least neutral. Should the list be shown in a new random order each time you visit? That seems like it would be confusing.
Also, it's only coming from vendors and vendors usually aren't going to issue a press release saying it's all gone wrong with a client, are they?
No, but if library neither is a vendor going to offer as a reference a library which was unhappy with their services. At least with an archive of press releases libraries can see what agreements have been made in the past.
You know whats neat about all this discussion? We can actually change things on the site. So big ups to NEKLS for hosting and for LIz for setting it all up and making changes. I really don't care what order the companies are, alphabetical is easy, thats why I did them that way when I shifted from the old site. All I want is to provide no judgement at all, if people are worried that coming first alphabetically somehow is saying this company is better than another then lets change the order. Personally I think if a client picks the first company out of a list just because it's first ... you probably don't want them as a client anyway. Someone has to be first someone has to be last, whatever order we choose as the default should be consistent so people can spot new entries. Chris