[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] OPAC searching (using staff client, at least)

[Jonathan Rochkind]

How hard would it be to reconfigure your particular EG installation  
to include publisher in general keyword search, if you wanted to do  
that?

Jonathan

On Apr 3, 2008, at 5:17 PM, Dan Scott wrote:
> Hi Brian, for what's its worth, here's my attempt at answering the
> questions I felt I could tackle, or comments on your questions.
>
> On 03/04/2008, Bryan Baldus <bryan.baldus at quality-books.com> wrote:
>>  2. Does Keyword search not include the publisher? Is there a way  
>> to search by publisher aside from using the MARC Expert Search?
>
> Nope. I suppose one could create an index specifically for publisher,
> though. The process of defining your own index would make for a great
> "how-to" document.
>
>>  3. Would it be possible to have a limit for Bibliographic Level  
>> (MARC Leader/07)?
>
> We would be interested in a similar feature. One of our collections is
> essentially a catalogue of individual articles (07 = 'b'), and it
> confuses our users to get article-level results mixed with books and
> journal titles.
>
>>  4. Is there a known problem with the MARC Expert Search? It seems  
>> like it would be a very useful feature, but most of the times I've  
>> tried using it, I've received no hits, even when I know there are  
>> records that should match.
>
> I had the same experience as you on http://demo.gapines.org (which is
> running the 1.2.1.x branch of Evergreen, I believe), but have had no
> problems running expert searches on our 800K record test instance at
> http://biblio-dev.laurentian.ca/ (running Evergreen trunk) with either
> relatively obscure field/subfield combos or very common ones (e.g.
> 349a "Social work" w/250 hits vs.  245a "canada" w/13000 hits) - I
> think it's a result of the Evergreen version, where Mike and Bill have
> been busy improving the search performance.
>
>>  5. Is there a way to sort search results for secondary searches  
>> (those done using the box at the top of the results), without  
>> having to go back to the main search page?
>
> If I understand what you're asking, this is addressed in the trunk
> version of Evergreen, and will be part of the 1.2.2.x release. There
> will be a little "Sort by" drop-down box at the top of the results
> that will enable you to sort by relevance, author, title, or
> publication date.
>
>>  6. When viewing the full MARC View for a record, it might be nice  
>> to be able to go back to the listing of results without having to  
>> choose OPAC view and then clicking the Go Back button (so, if  
>> there were a Go Back button on the MARC View display).
>
> Hmm. In trunk I typically just hit the "View MARC" link at the top
> right, and that displays the MARC record in a pop-up window. But I
> could see something more explicit than "Go Back" as an option (I would
> expect "Go Back" from "MARC View" to go back to the regular record
> display, and then the next "Go Back" to go back to the results).
>
>>  7. Is it possible (a setting somewhere, perhaps) to have more  
>> than 10 results display at once?
>
> I took a brief look through the code but didn't find where this limit
> was set. It must be possible, of course - perhaps we could expose it
> as a staff client preference.
>
> -- 
> Dan Scott
> Laurentian University