RE: Non-rotated subject index

["Schupbach ,Mr William" <w.schupbach@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It seems to me that the rotated headings are indeed very useful in mitigating the downside of not having a word-in-subject-heading search.  >From the reader's point of view, I'm not sure the headings need to be displayed in rotated form, provided all the terms in the chain can be searched. The sought-for term could be in red, in its correct position in the chain.  But maybe the terms have to be rotated so that Innopac's search, being left-anchored, can search them?

A general Word search is no substitute for a word-in-subject-heading search.  It introduces too many false positives, e.g. search under France, you get "Greek as a treat : an introduction to the classics" by Peter France.

William Schupbach
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-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-admin@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:innopac-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeffrey Trimble
Sent: 8 January 2003 19:02
To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Non-rotated subject index 
[...] rotated subject headings defeats the purpose of using LCSH
and the National Standards that this provides.  Users are confused enough
as it is.
I use the Rotate Subject Headings for authority control only.
So, there is a reason NOT to use them.   Also, my site has the subjects
rotated.  Not my decision.  :-)