Results Display
Effective display helps users find what they are looking for. Page layout or position of labels, text, and instructional information “eases eye movement and improves the clarity of the overall screen.” Web searchers expect graphics, so as Chan indicates, it is possible to make use of icons both to display information and to provide direction to the catalog user. New display options are increasingly taking advantage of the graphical capability of the Web. Arecent example by Union College’s Schaffer Library in New York State (http://libraryopac.union.edu/) presents a promising new format for both citation display and full-record display (figures 7 and 8, respectively). Incorporating graphics makes the screen easy to read and field labels easy to understand.