Actually, it's failing because it wasn't searched as "Twain, Mark".
-Ross.
On 6/13/06, Mary Grenci <mgrenci_at_uoregon.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Ross Singer wrote:
>
> > On 6/13/06, Walt Crawford <waltcrawford_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > [You know, I'll bet that a majority of library users also know what an
> > > "author" is...]
> > >
> >
> > I will also bet that they won't understand why their author search fails
> > when they type "mark twain".
>
> But it only fails if there's no authority control. I like to think that
> most library catalogs have authority control that points the user to the
> entry chosen for use in the catalog. Yes, this could be made more seamless
> by just pulling up the records under that entry. Even the way it is now,
> though, the search should not "fail."
>
> Mary
>
Received on Tue Jun 13 2006 - 13:55:43 EDT