Re: AVS : skip adjacency in favor of the "and" search

[jean-marc.edwards@xxxxxxxxxx]

Right on! This is exactly our concern. I hope to be able to learn from 
Innovative or other list members about how this enhancement will 
actually work in pahse 3!

Thanks

Jean-Marc

Craig Johnson wrote:

>We're curious about whether when an "and" search is chosen as the
>default with the enhancement, if a searcher can specify adjacency with
>quotation marks or the like. Let's hope we don't have to go through
>another round of enhancement requests for that very useful, and
>sometimes necessary, feature, and in the meatime be forced to choose
>between never being able to use adjacency or being required to enter an
>"and." Did they get it ALL right this time??
>
>Craig Johnson
>Iowa City Public Library
>cjohnson@xxxxxxxxxx 
>
>  
>
>>>>jean-marc.edwards@xxxxxxxxxx 06/26/03 12:50PM >>>
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>Hi all,
>
>The latest list of enhancements for Release 2002 (all phases) says on 
>page 20 
>http://csdirect.iii.com/csd/release_notes/pdf/Rls2002_Enhlist.pdf :
>
>that :
>
>"Libraries that want to offer a broader set of  advanced keyword search
>
>results will be able to skip adjacency in favor of the "and" search"
>
>We delayed our implementation of AVS because we wanted to have that 
>option. Are there any beta testers of Release 2002 phase 3 who have
>tested this AVS option? Would it be possible to share your experience
>with the list? Has anyone seen this in action or have additionnal
>information they could share with the group?
>
>Many thanks
>  
>

-- 
Jean-Marc Edwards
Assistant-Director, Systems / Directeur-adjoint, Systèmes
Concordia University Libraries, Montréal, (Qc), Canada
tel: (514) 848-7732 fax: (514) 848-4244
email: jean-marc.edwards@xxxxxxxxxx





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