[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What are your requirements for Evergreen?

[Mike Rylander]

Just for informational purposes...

On Jan 30, 2008 1:57 PM, Bryan Baldus <bryan.baldus at quality-books.com> wrote:
> >Catalogue: Do we have requirements beyond surfacing new functionality like
> academic reserves, acquisition requests, etc in the catalogue?
>
> Are there plans to add the ability to browse alphabetically, at least by
> author, title, subject, if not also series/uniform title, call number, and
> others? It seems to me that such an ability would be useful for all library
> types. For an example of its implementation, see <http://catalog.loc.gov/>
> or <http://authorities.loc.gov>. Improvements could be made, perhaps. For
> example, it wouldn't necessarily have to be a full-page listing by
> default--perhaps just a more complete listing on the side, with entire
> headings rather than just $a of a name.

Browse "indexes" are planned.

>
> If I know the name of an author, for example, Shakespeare, William,
> 1849-1931 (NAR no 92032318 ) and want to find works either by or about him
> (and/or want to choose only one of those options), is it be possible to do
> so? Without retrieving records for Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 that are
> not related to the former?
>

Yes, this is in Evergreen today.  The default result page does not
make it clear that you are looking at the dates-limited author only,
though.  "Just" a display issue, but one that can be improved, for
sure.

> If I search Wagner, Richard, I would like to be able to pull up works by
> only one of them, after being able to choose which one. For example, if I
> want all of the works of the musician Wagner, Richard,$d1813-1883 (NAR n
> 79089831), I would like the ability to have the search not show me records
> with Wagner, Richard,$q(Richard S.), $d1953- (NAR n 96054284, heading should
> be Wagner, Richard,$d1953-; author of The case for Mars) unless the musician
> also appears on the record.
>

The author sidebar allows you to narrow your search to the specific
person, but, again, the dates are not displayed in the result summary
by default, making it unclear that this is the case.

> For cataloging, related to the above, and to "* Authority control: there is
> some rudimentary authority control built into Evergreen today.", it would be
> nice to be able to browse the authority file alphabetically and to see which
> headings have authority records and which don't (for example, the initial
> results page of a search at <http://authorities.loc.gov>).
>

Do you mean "which authoized headings have bibliographic records?"  If
so, that is planned as well, but for a later date than bibliographic
result set browsing.

> Thank you for your assistance,
>

Hope that helps!

> Bryan Baldus
> Cataloger
> Quality Books Inc.
> The Best of America's Independent Presses
> 1-800-323-4241x402
> bryan.baldus at quality-books.com
>



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