[Koha] searching subjects in PAC

[Rachel Hollis]

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 at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:15 AM
To: Rachel Hollis
Cc: koha at 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 at 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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