[Koha-bugs] [Bug 5810] Subject tracings should search complete subfields

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Nicole C. Engard <nengard at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Nicole C. Engard <nengard at gmail.com> 2011-02-24 13:41:35 UTC ---
I was doing a training a few months ago and the librarians there loved the fact
that it didn't do an exact match.  The reasoning made sense to me (but then
again I was never a stickler for the rules when I was cataloging).  If you have
a book with about the United States and a book that takes place in the United
States the subject term "United States" will appear in different spots (with
other possible identifiers). The way it searches now allows you to find all of
those subjects.  Other examples include keywords like 'Juvenile' or 'Fiction'
(just to name a few).  I like that the search chains the subjects together as
keyword searches (on the subject) because then you get more than if you were
limited only to that exact subject.

Further, if your library isn't using Authorities then it makes perfect sense
that the search be flexible as it is now because there is no telling how two
people cataloged two books on the same topics.  


This might need to be an authorities system preference that asks outright if
the library uses authority control - and if so then you can make the search
only search the full authority - otherwise I'd say it should stay the way it
is.

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