RE: search OPAC from library home?

["Fifarek, Aimee" <afifarek at scottsdaleaz dot gov>]

Emily -- we decided to go with just a plain box that automatically does a
keyword search, with the go button next to it.  Here's the code:
<table>
<form name="catalog" action="http://your.catalog.url/search/a?a";
method="post" onsubmit="return checkform(this);">
<tr><td align="bottom">
<input type="hidden" name="searchtype" value="X" />
<input name="searcharg" id="searchterms" size="13" />
<input type="hidden" name="SORT" value="D" />
</td><td valign="top">
<input type="image" value="Submit"
src="http://your.catalog.url/screens/go_but.gif"; class="searchbutton"
accesskey="s" title="Search the Library catalog" alt="Search the Library
catalog"/>
</td>
</tr></table>

-- Aimee

Aimee Fifarek
Library Technology Supervisor
Scottsdale Public Library
3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd.
Scottsdale, AZ 85251-4467
Tel:  480/312-7060
Fax:  480/312-7993
afifarek at scottsdaleaz dot gov


-----Original Message-----
From: David Jones [mailto:djones at scu dot edu]
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 7:07 PM
To: innopac at innopacusers dot org; elin at ucmerced dot edu
Subject: Re: search OPAC from library home?




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>>> Emily Lin <elin at ucmerced dot edu> 05/23/05 3:28 PM >>>
We'd like to have a search box on our library's home page that will search
the library catalog, instead of linking off to the catalog's page. Would
anyone who has implemented this share how you did it?
<<<

It's not perfect because the first URIs retrieved aren't bookmark-able, but
here's our form (salt to taste...)

         <form method="post" action="http://sculib.scu.edu/search/_";
name="">
 			  <select name="searchtype">
				<option value="X" selected>Keywords</option>
				<option value="a">Author</option>
				<option value="t">Title</option>
				<option value="d">Subject </option>
				<option value="c">LC Call Number</option>
				<option value="g">Gov Doc Number</option>
				<option value="i">ISBN/ISSN</option>
				<option value="r">by Course name</option>
				<option value="p">by Course
Instructor</option>
			  </select>
			  <input type="text" name="searcharg" size="25"
maxlength="60">
			  <input type="hidden" name="SORT" value="A">
			  <input type="image" border="0" name="submit"
src="images/gifs/templates/search_oscar_red.gif" width="120" height="20"
alt="Search OSCAR">
		  </form>

HTH,
David

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