[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Need basic information on "Journal Title" search for 2.4 docs

[Dan Scott]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:53:45PM -0400, Yamil Suarez wrote:
> 
> Thanks Kathy, I was looking at the wrong release notes file for 2.3.
> Fo right now I only need a one sentence summary to add to the docs
> where all the "qtypes" are listed[1].
> 
> The "title" entry is listed as "Title—finds the terms you enter in
> the title of an item."
> 
> I guess I could write something like "Journal Title—finds the terms
> you enter in the title of a journal bib record," but I want to make
> sure this is both accurate and not too verbose.
> 
> BTW, I am still not 100% clear of how it works in the back end,
> because I am not familiar with the bib_level selector and want to
> learn more about this search for when we upgrade.

Hi Yamil:

bib_level comes from MARC leader[07] "bibliographic level" attribute:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bdleader.html

For the case of Journal Title, it simply appends "bib_level=s" to the
backend search to limit results to records that have that leader[07]
value set to "s" for "serial".

Dan