On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:32:00PM +0300, Ville Huhtala wrote: [...]
Yes, I did check all visible fields - but searies titles and notes are invisible. I think this is very, very wrong. If I remember right then some of those notes are for librarian only - and should not be searched. There is also no reason to hide notes that are made for opac users.
Hiding the series title is also wrong because it makes difficult to uniquely identify searched works.
I also think it is wrong to not display series title, notes etc. in the OPAC too. For one thing, library users are used to seeing them in real card catalogues :-) The catalogue we have in "my" library also displays series title, notes, etc.; I think the public libraries here (Toronto, Canada) do that too. On another note, I find that on the demo site, the search fields have only a clear button, but no "go" or "submit" button. The instructions tell the user to press the "Enter" key, but this seems to *unnecessarily depend* on Javascript, so it won't work in text browsers, so we have - Search in the Intranet module doesn't work in text browsers (lynx, w3m, etc.) - Search in the Internet module doesn't work if the user disabled Javascript (for security reasons, for example) - Some computers may call the "Enter" key by some other name BTW, the search on the OPAC module does not have this unnecessary Javascript dependency. Regards, -- Ambrose Li <a.c.li@ieee.org> http://trends.ca/~acli/ http://www.cccgt.org/ DRM is theft - We are the stakeholders