[IUG] How to make linking fields link?-- 76x-78x

[Patricia Thompson <pthompso at sewanee dot edu>]

Someone please help me out with this.  I am not a system 
administrator. I have searched the online Innovative Guide and 
Reference every way I can think of and cannot find what I am looking for.

I have discovered that some of the serials linking fields (76x-78x) 
in our catalog do not actually work as links (in fact, they do not 
even display!), and I'm trying to ask our system admin to change 
this. She wanted to know whether I wanted to add the missing fields 
into the keyword index. I don't think this is what I want at all.  I 
want them to be "hotlinks." What makes the fields work as clickable 
links? I do not think it is the same as "indexing" because I found 
the following post in the list archives: "Our MARC 77X-78X fields are 
not indexed. That said, the WebOPAC does 'hotlink' them to search to 
perform a title search."

Our 780 and 785 fields do work as clickable "hotlinks", and it 
appears that ours are set up so that a title search is performed on 
the |t portion of the field. This results in less-than-ideal results 
when the heading is a name-title (e.g. Botanical Society of 
America.|tAbstracts of papers)  because the title portion is generic 
and matches many other titles. Should the search be by ISSN, or OCLC 
number? What setting determines which part of that field actually 
gets searched when you click on the link?

Thank you in advance. Copying your response to my email address would 
be extremely helpful since I get this list in digest form.

Pat Thompson


Patricia R. Thompson
Assistant University Librarian for Resource Management Services
Jessie Ball duPont Library
The University of the South
Sewanee, TN 37383
Phone: 931-598-1657
Email: pthompso at sewanee dot edu