Re: Title searches in text vs. Web OPAC

[Patricia Thompson <pthompso@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This might be totally unrelated, but I've experienced a little "glitch" in
our opac that might be in yours. In our opening search screen (the one you
get when you "start over"), sometimes if I type in a title the space bar
acts as a return and sends the search before I've finished typing it. So of
course I often get a no hit. This doesn't always happen and I can't
pinpoint why or when it does happen, but if it happens to everyone else as
often as me, that could seriously affect statistics.
Pat Thompson


At 01:32 PM 11/28/00 -0800, you wrote:
>    
>    An interesting phenomenon has been discovered. 
>    For some reason, the failure rate (zero hit) for title searches is
>substantially higher in the Web OPAC than in the text OPAC.  Author and
>Subject searches have similar zero hit rates in both versions of the OPAC. 

Patricia R. Thompson
Head of Cataloging
Jessie Ball DuPont Library
University of the South
735 University Avenue
Sewanee, TN 37383
(931) 598-1657
(931) 598-1702 (fax)
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