<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Galen Charlton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gmc@esilibrary.com">gmc@esilibrary.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
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<div class="im">On Apr 6, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Chris Nighswonger wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> Perhaps a simple radio button setup with "exact" and "like" options in the patron search interface would allow both types of searches without the inconvenience of having to select one *or* the other via a syspref.<br>
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</div><div class="im">Indeed. But I'm going to play the devil's advocate for a moment: is providing such an option something that would be of real use, or would it be UI noise?<br></div></blockquote></div><br>Yes. Or at least the functional equivalent. Most searches I've seen elsewhere at least have an "advanced" option which includes the ability to do both an exact search and a "contains" search.<br>
<br>I would further postulate that libraries with thousands of patrons might appreciate the option to do both without having to go through the multi-step process of changing a syspref.<br><br>Noise is acceptable so long as it does not raise the overall noise floor... ;-)<br>