Hi Victor, Normally, in the world of Cataloguing, the letter ³a² is what we call an ³initial article². Initial Articles are usually ignored when you are searching databases, e.g. Library Catalogues.
In my experience, I have found though that Koha will search initial article¹s instead of ignoring them, but most z39.50 Server¹s stick to the rules of Initial Articles are ignored. Some of the many known Initial Articles for example are: * a * and * of * the * to For example, when you are cataloguing using MARC format, you would indicate that the title starts with an Initial Article utilising your MARC Indicators, that way your ILS will ignore the initial article when creating a list of titles in filing order. Example title: The brief history of Australia : a study guide for students / by Joe Bloggs ; edited by John Who. 245 14 $aThe brief history of Australia :$ba study guide for students /$cby Joe Bloggs ; edited by John Who. MARC Tag Details: 245 = Title Statement Indicator 1 = 1 (Added Entry) Indicator 2 = 4 (Character count of initial article, in the example title ³The² = 3 characters + space = 4 characters) Subfield a: Title Subfield b: Subtitle Subfield c: Statement of Responsibility Therefore, with the example, when it is listed in a Shelf List the ILS sees it as: ³brief history of Australia : a study guide for students² instead of ³The brief history of Australia : a study guide for students², but still prints the word ³the² in the title on the Shelf List. I hope that answers your question in some form. Kindest Regards, Joel > From: Vitor Fernandes <vitorfernande...@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:16:19 +0100 > To: Koha List <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> > Subject: [Koha] Z39.50 Search > > Hi there Koha community, > > I've one question about Z39.50, which is not directly related with Koha. > If I search in Koha for titles with "a" in the Z39.50 search, what is > returned? > > Records with the word "a" in the title? > Records with the letter "a" in the title or words started by "a"? > > This question it's because I need to do a query to one Z39.50 server > that returns me the records with at least one word started with "a". > If someone can help me, i would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > Vitor Fernandes > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >
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