RE: Title searches in text vs. Web OPAC

["Penny Swanson" <swansonp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

And, this may be totally unrelated, but are people aware of the problem of fields failing to index in WEBOPAC?  We have just noticed this lately, and sent a call into III in Oct.  We did not hear from them, but came upon another instance yesterday and updated the call.

What is happening is that various fields are not indexing in the WEBOPAC.  We have had examples of call numbers (090) most frequently, but also subject headings and, just yesterday, a title.  The fields appear in the record in GUICAT, even index in GUICAT and text mode, but do not index in WEBOPAC.  This has us really concerned about other records which we just haven't found.  

Has anyone else noticed this?

Thanks.

Penny



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>>> kriss@xxxxxxxxxx 11/28/00 07:50PM >>>
Does the disappearing cursor only occur in title searches? 

In any case, has anyone reported this to III?   If so, what was the
response? Do you have a call #?

It may be unrelated, but I remember that the Netscape "data missing" problem
(when patrons try to print a WebPac screen found via a title search) seems
to occur only on title searches, which (I understand) III has declared to be
a Netscape glitch.

Kriss
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> From:
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> an_A/cpslo_employee1@xxxxxxxxxx] 
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> Sent: 	Tuesday, November 28, 2000 7:30 PM
> To: 	pthompso@xxxxxxxxxx 
> Cc: 	innopac@xxxxxxxxxx 
> Subject: 	Re: Title searches in text vs. Web OPAC
> 
> I think they call that "little glitch" you mentioned the "disappearing
> cursor" and can be found in volumes in the archives.  Something tells me
> it's more than a "little glitch" if it has a name for it!
> Joan Kennedy
> 
> Pat wrote:
> 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)
> > pthompso@xxxxxxxxxx 
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