Re: wrinkle in home page search box

[Karen Perone <peroneka at oplin dot org>]

An update to all and an answer to Jim. First, thank you for the 
suggestions on fixing my search, but alas, those didn't work. What I 
ended up doing was copying the keyword search widget from one of the 
internal pages to the library home page. The AVS keyword searching uses 
javascript. That seemed to do the trick.

As for Jim's question, yes, we too are having truncated keyword search 
problems and have an open call on it. It seems strange that a search for 
"tutan**" yields nothing, but a search on "tut**" yields hits for King 
Tut and Tutankhamen.

In addition to getting "No hits" results for the searches he mentions 
below, we are also getting "No hits" for the infamous "wom?n" search 
although we can search "woman OR women" and get many results.

Anyone else seeing these kinds of results? We're on Silver.
--Karen

Mann, James H. wrote:

> Karen
> Can you do the following keyword searches in your catalog please:
> tutan** and  cath** 
> I don't mean to bother the whole list, but I've got this perception that
> there may be something wrong with keyword searching that's beyond just
> my catalog.
> Thanks
>
> Jim Mann
> Technology Coordinator
> Greene County Public Library
> Xenia Ohio 45385
> (937) 376-2996 x210
> mailto: jmann at gcpl dot lib dot oh dot us
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org
> [mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Karen Perone
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 3:41 PM
> To: innopac
> Subject: wrinkle in home page search box
>
> We have been using a "Search the Catalog" option on our library's home 
> page for quite awhile but have only just discovered a Keyword search 
> problem that I can't quite figure out.
>
>  From our home page, http://www.rodmanlibrary.com do a keyword search 
> for "neck pain" without the quotes. The hits number 181. If you click 
> the next page button, it shows "Keywords 13-24 of 181" but, there are NO
>
> results shown and the same for subsequent pages.
>
> If the same search is done from the catalog's main menu, 
> http://roc.rodmanlibrary.com or any of the search widgets within the 
> catalog, then there are only 7 hits and all display.
>
> The problem only occurs with the keyword search. We are using the "Y" 
> search. I suspect this may be the culprit.