Friday, November 5, 2004 18:05 CST Hi, Owen, Maybe I am missing something important here, too. I definitely agree that having more search options open for library staff is desirable. # From my time managing a highschool library, I remember that the things we would look at in acquisitions would have borne almost no interest for staff or students, however. Figures such as budgets encumbered, budgets remaining, amounts spent on various categories, and sources of acquisitions (suppliers, donors: indeed, for the latter, one sometimes has to protect confidentiality and so one would not want non-staff accessing that info) properly belong to a staff-only side of things. Usually these things are visible in coded form in the MARC-view in various kinds of OPACs but I've yet to hear of a non-library worker/non-administrator interested in acquisitions minutia. I suppose what I am saying is 2 different interface options do make sense to me, as long as the security of information and more search options are designated for the library worker side of things. Just my two cents worth. Steven F. Baljkas library tech at large Koha neophyte Winnipeg, MB, Canada

From: "Owen Leonard" <oleonard@athenscounty.lib.oh.us> Date: 2004/11/05 Fri PM 02:19:30 CST To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Acquisitions search

It seems strange to me that there are two different search interfaces for the regular catalog and for acquisitions. It would be nice if the catalog search options were there for acquisitions as well. I guess the big difference is that the acquisitions search has to include the breeding farm as well. Do the developers see that as something that will change soon? Or do I misunderstand the complexity of the issue?

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