On 6/20/2014 9:20 AM, Donald Butterworth wrote:
I agree with Janet, that the whole subject phrase needs to be kept
together so that only the limited set displays when clicking on the
phrase. There are lots of DLC authority records that include a main
subject and subdivisions.
I'm confused
I think that Don is talking about something different -- a way to
keyword search subject headings.
Right now we have two subject search options:
On the Basic and Advanced search screen, choosing subject and entering
search terms gets you all the records that have that term in subject
This is an interesting and useful idea (especially for catalogers!),
but I'm not sure patrons would dig the intervening screen when
performing the keyword subject search. It strikes that the function
would be rather like a disambiguation page on Wikipedia. It might be
nice might be nice if
And also in this discussion is the way subject headings work in the bib
record display. When we first came up on Evergreen, our users found this
somewhat confusing, too. In our former system, if you clicked on a
subject heading in a bib record, you were doing a browse search on that
complete
On 6/20/2014 9:20 AM, Donald Butterworth wrote:
I agree with Janet, that the whole subject phrase needs to be kept
together so that only the limited set displays when clicking on the phrase.
There are lots of DLC authority records that include a main subject and
subdivisions.
I'm confused
I like Don's suggestion for how a subject search should work very much,
though I would say that what he describes wouldn't really be a subject
keyword search at all, but something new and significantly different from
what Evergreen currently. If we really wanted to make such a search
powerful, we
Hello all,
Just a quick note for anyone waiting, the maintenance releases for 2.5 and 2.6
are currently delayed. Please plan on these releases next week instead.
Thank you,
Dan
Daniel Wells
Library Programmer/Analyst
Hekman Library, Calvin College
616.526.7133
