That's what I tell librarians it is when I do training, so if the label matched that it would make sense. authority search++ On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy@rijksmuseum.nl> wrote:

I agree too. Authority search would be better for those who know what they are searching and are not only ´googling´the catalog..

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] Namens Owen Leonard Verzonden: woensdag 9 juni 2010 15:19 Aan: koha Onderwerp: [Koha] Does your library use OPAC authority searching?

There is a new bug in our bug tracking system, '"Browse by subject" is misnamed':

http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4862

I'm interested in hearing from any libraries who have this feature enabled. Do you think the link is misnamed?

How can we label this search in a way that is both accurate and understandable? Is an authority search enough of a specialized task that the link can be named "Authority search" and those who know what it is will use it?

 -- Owen

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Paul, while I agree, I also don't think that search is helpful at all for public library patrons - they will have no idea how to use it or what the results mean. If we want it to make sense to the general public then we should change the entire tool to use plain language and not library language. Nicole On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com> wrote:

Le 09/06/2010 15:19, Owen Leonard a écrit :

...

How can we label this search in a way that is both accurate and understandable? Is an authority search enough of a specialized task that the link can be named "Authority search" and those who know what it is will use it?

authority is meaningless for public libraries patrons imo It can be meaningfull for academic libraries and for some patrons, but even in this case, I think "authority" is restricted.

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Authors & Subjects works for me - at least that is closer to what the search actually does than 'Browse Subjects' 2010/6/12 Rafael Antonio <koha.pt@gmail.com>:

Dear users,

I understand your comments but in Portugal we named it "Authors and Subjects". It is a powerfull tool because users can search only on existing terms (authorities) rather than keywords that can not correspond to any index. May be an alternative feature could be a similar browse bur on indexes (author, title, subject) as we can do on authorities showing how many records correspond to each one. But  "misnamed" is just a sintax matter who can not hide their important functionality. Regards,

Rafael

2010/6/9 Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org>

...

There is a new bug in our bug tracking system, '"Browse by subject" is misnamed':

http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4862

I'm interested in hearing from any libraries who have this feature enabled. Do you think the link is misnamed?

How can we label this search in a way that is both accurate and understandable? Is an authority search enough of a specialized task that the link can be named "Authority search" and those who know what it is will use it?

 -- Owen

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