The San Francisco Public Library website is oh-so-slow. I’m trying to find out if the local branch, or any branch, has a copy of Desolation Island by Patrick O’Brian (I’m almost done with the biography). But in both Safari and IE 5.2.2 on MacOS X, the results are empty and slow. I haven’t used the library website for many months (a year?), but I don’t remember it being this poor. Interface looks the same, so I wasn’t expecting better or worse, necessarily. Copyright on the pages for the software is 1999, which may say it all.