RE: Selectors for creating a list

["Mays, Antje" <maysa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello Judy,     do you mean the boolean search criteria?   Here's my suggestion:
A

Scenario A -- if you have your materials categories separated by acqtype:

1. to nail down the date, use odate >=01-01-2003 and odate <=02-28-2003 {you could also use the "between 1-1-2003 and 2-28-2003" function to specify date), or use rdate or cat-date (bib-record) if that's what you're after.
2. The book categories depend on how you have them set up.   If you mark these categories with specific acqtypes, you can say specify date range AND acqtype=[whatever your code is]

Scenario B --  if you have these categories earmarked by fund codes, you could include the fund-code in your search statement.  For example, to get the list of mystery titles ordered in Jan and Feb.2003,

1. your search statement would look something like this:  odate odate >=01-01-2003 and odate <=02-28-2003  AND fund=mystery [whatever your fund code is]
2. Then, to save this search strategy (always useful in searches that are needed repeatedly):
3. Another way to get at the same data:   You could also just a search for the date range, and the run new seaches by category-specific fund-code against the just-completed file of new titles for your date range.
4. If you're using the text-based -- before typing "s" for search, type "%" and you get a prompt to save that search strategy.  Then name it something that is meaningful to you.
5. If you're using Millenium -- at the bottom of your search screen, you can click on "save" and then you get a prompt to save the search there and to name it something meaningful to your info need.

When you need the same search later:

• In text-based, before typing in search criteria, type "%" and you get the list of previously saved search criteria.   Call up the one you want, make the changes as needed for the updated list, and run your search.
• In Millenium, go to "saved searches" and select the search strategy you want from there, then click on "search".   The Millenium version of searching is much more user-friendly for updating the criteria for complex search strategies.

Hope this helps.   Let me know if you have more questions.

 

Best,

    antje

 

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Antje Mays

Head, Monograph & A-V Acquisitions

Dacus Library

Winthrop University

Rock Hill, South Carolina 29733, U.S.A.

phone:  001-803-323-2274

fax:      001-803-323-2215

email:  maysa@xxxxxxxxxx

http://faculty.winthrop.edu/maysa 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Judy Howington [mailto:jhowington@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 9:20 AM
To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Selectors for creating a list


I am having a problem figuring out what selectors I used to create a list of
new purchases during Jan. and Feb.  I want to do the same kinds of lists
again, but can't quite remember what I did.  My lists were by catagory -
fiction, mystery, science fiction, non-fiction, etc.  Is there a way to see
not just the list that has been created, but also the selectors used to
create the lisit?  My mind is just not functioning correctly today.  Thanks,

Judy Howington