Re: [IUG] WebPAC question

[hmiklitz at nypl dot org]

Bob,

Thanks for the explanation. I was asked the same question recently about
our catalog. We had a situation where "For whom the bell tolls" appeared in
the contents note of an "Arthur" juvenile video. You can imagine the
confusion.

The long story has to do with the 505 $t being in the "Note" tag group even
though indexed as a Title. So the system displays instead the first field
that is in the "Title" tag group, which in the cited case happens to be
Buffy.

I'll stop there.

Heide
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hmiklitz at nypl dot org


                                                                                 
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At 10:01 AM 3/16/2010, you wrote:
>If you search our catalog<http://catalog.library.txstate.edu/search>
>for the title "Where the Wild Things Are" the first entry in the
>list has 7 hits, and the first title in the list of 7 is "Buffy the
>Vampire Slayer."  There is an episode listed in a contents note with
>the title "Where the Wild Things Are" but can someone explain to me
>why that entry is listed first, ahead of items with the specific
>title that was searched?

All seven records have the specific title that was searched (that's
why they're in the results set), and the results are sorted
alphabetically by bib title:

buffy...
a guide...
a literature guide
max made...
where the wild...
where the wild...
where the wild...

The hit for Buffy doesn't display where the wild things are the way
hits 2-4 do because the title is in a 505 field (long story...ask III).

Bob Duncan


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