RE: R.2001A Limit/Sort by Year

["Christopher C. Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Betty,

Here is another one.

Chris

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[mailto:innopac-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mieko Yamaguchi
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 4:55 PM
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Subject: Re: R.2001A Limit/Sort by Year


The situation is worse for non-current serials because the end date
displays in the date column.  This is very confusing.  There was some
discussion on this a few weeks ago and I like the suggestion from Claudia
Chester that sorting by year should be based on the 008 date one (if it
exists).

http://innopacusers.org/list/archives/2002/msg00773.html

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Brian D. Moore wrote:

> Also, our librarians regularly instructed patrons they could
> identify serials by their open publication date (e.g. 1996-) Now that it
> only displays the 4-digit year being sorted we have found the Limit/Sort
by
> Year function of limited use. We have ended up turning on the
SUPPRESS_YEAR
> WWWOPTION. Here's an example:
>
http://libpac.sdsu.edu/search/t?SEARCH=Uses+of+enchantment+the+meaning+and+i
mportance+of+fairy+tales
> With the Year column displaying, all these editions appear as 1976. The
new
> Sort by Year logic also doesn't work for this title.
>
> III says they may revisit this design decision in the next release and
> suggested the function may be enhanced to sort/display the most recent
date
> from the Publisher field. This would be an improvement but we would still
> like to see the return of the full subfield display (perhaps as an
> option?). If you feel this is as critical as we do, please weigh in at
> mailto:enhance@xxxxxxxxxx. We would really like to see this fixed before the
> next release.

Mieko
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Mieko Yamaguchi                                m.yamaguchi@xxxxxxxxxx
Technical Services Manager/System Coordinator        +44 (0)1248 382970
Main Library, University of Wales Bangor, UK   +44 (0)1248 382979 (Fax)

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