Browsing by title may not be that important today with keyword retrieval since
people should be able to sort in other ways. I believe that is the only place
for non-filing indicators (other than series titles), but I may be wrong?
They were only talking about books at that meeting, weren't they?
(After all, there was a clear book industry bias)
Requirements for series' and periodicals' titles may be a different
story in this aspect. Try finding periodicals in GBS. But they'll be
getting to that, no doubt...
In large catalogs, an alphabetized title index can be helpful
when you know only the beginning of the title and when it
is unspecific so you are not sure what precise keywords to use to find
it. Or so is my old-fashioned view.
B.Eversberg
