[Koha] Does your library use OPAC authority searching?

Nicole Engard nengard at gmail.com
Sun Jun 13 23:40:10 NZST 2010


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 at 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 at 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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