Re: Turn off hyperlinked call nos.

["Cathy Cox" <cathy_cox@xxxxxxxxxx>]

So. . . are you going to submit this as an enhancement request?

Cathy Cox
Electronic Resources Librarian
Mission College Library

At 09:58 AM 9/14/00 +1000, you wrote:
>We also have had problems with users clicking on the "hot" call number link
>in the Webpac and being confused with what they found. They don't realise
>that it's function corresponds to the "Show Items Nearby on Shelf" on the
>text based Opac. In our case our INNOPAC system is a combined catalogue of
>libraries separated by dozens of kilometers, so it's not really a helpful
>feature. However one fix that I thought of would be to remove the link from
>the call number and add another button that literally said "Show Items
>Nearby on Shelf" so that a user clicking on it would have some idea of what
>was happening and the library would still retain the functionality of the
>call number index..
>
>John
>
>At 15:53 12/09/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >One of our Instruction/Reference librarians asked if there was a way to a
> >way to 'turn off' the HTML links for call numbers in the web opac.  In
> >effect, turn off the 'Show Items Nearby on Shelf' feature in the Web OPAC
> >only.  She had the experience in three bib instruction classes this fall of
> >students clicking on the call number to find out where the item was located
> >(one group did it during a class presentation and informed the class they
> >got bad information back).
> >Our locations are hyperlinked using the wwwoptions file, but students
> >(naturally) want to click the call number to get information about it.
> >My sense is that you would have to unindex the call numbers which we can
> >not do. Have others had this experience?  Has anyone come up with a work
> >around? Are we the only ones who find the the character pac less confusing
> >on this?
> >Thanks for your advice,
> >Helen
> >
> >.
> >
> >
> >  Helen Dungan
> >  Cataloging Librarian                         E-mail: dunganh@xxxxxxxxxx
> >  Lafayette College                             Phone: (610) 330-5160
> >  Easton, Pa. 18043-1797                   Fax: (610) 252-0370
> >
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