If our system administrator enables the merge_authorities.pl cron job, will this correct the situation? When we move to the latest version of Koha, will this correct the situation? When we go with the latest Koha, will we need to make any changes to selections in Authorities under Systems Preferences? I'm sorry to be asking so many questions. I would like our users to think that our PAC is the hottest thing since sliced bread. Rachel Hollis, librarian Stevens-Henager College, Boise Campus -----Original Message----- From: Nicole Engard [mailto:nengard@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:15 AM To: Rachel Hollis Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] searching subjects in PAC This was a known issue that I do believe has been fixed by 3.0.5 ... but I need someone else confirm this for me because I'm on a dev system that doesn't have working authorities yet :) Nicole 2010/1/12 Rachel Hollis <Rachel.Hollis@stevenshenager.edu>:
Greetings friends, I believe that I need to change something for the users of our PAC and I can’t believe that I have just noticed this issue.
When our users click a subject heading, they receive a “No results match your search for ‘an:2812’ in CASI Libraries Catalog” screen even when we have more than the one item with the subject heading. The “an” with the number part of the message indicates to me that the authority files are being used. Assuming that, under Administration > Systems Preferences > Authorities the following selections have been made: authoritysep set to -- BiblioAddsAuthorities set to ON dontmerge set to ON
Using the authority files while cataloging I have noticed that we have multiple headings; for the search above there are two headings in the authorities database, one with control number 2812 and one with 3488.
What can I do to allow our PAC users to click on heading and find the other titles with the same heading? Do I need to ask our system administrator to enable the merge_authorities.pl cron job? We are using Koha 3.01.
Rachel Hollis, librarian Stevens-Henager College, Boise Idaho Campus
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