[Evergreen-catalogers] Initial articles and apostrophes in On Order records

[Elaine Hardy]

I don't think there is a way to fool Evergreen about initial articles. I
think searches should ignore initial articles, especially with the 245
second indicator coded to skip them.
In PINES, searches with or without apostrophes returns results, so maybe
that is a search setting??

I personally never use initial articles in a search; but, that is how I
learned to search in the Dark Ages when OCLC had a list of stop words not
to use in searches.

J. Elaine Hardy, PINES and Collaborative Projects Manager
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On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 4:53 PM Tricia Everaert via Evergreen-catalogers <
evergreen-catalogers at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
> This question is about on order records.  Ours come without initial
> articles and without punctuation in the 245.
> This means when we search for The Christie affair as either a keyword or a
> title search, the book isn't found.  (The on order record has the title as
> 'Christie affair') Or "That's not my name" also isn't found, unless
> searched for without the apostrophe.
>
> I've emailed our book vendor to ask if this is standard, but in case it is
> and they can't change their practice, I'm wondering if there is a way to
> fool Evergreen into realizing 'Christie affair', and 'Thats not my name'
> are the very books we're looking for when we use the 'proper' title with
> the The and the apostrophe in our search?
>
> I might be overlooking something very obvious here... let me know!
> Tricia
>
>
>
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