Clairvoyance! That's what we need...
In Eureka, we added the clickable-link suggestion in all cases, along with
the author browse that's automatic for author searches. Of course, if people
won't click on a link, that's another issue....
On 6/13/06, Jack Hall <jhall_at_uh.edu> wrote:
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> Our Innopac catalog suggests turning the search around (giving a clickable
> link), but only if there are no hits for the name in direct order. For the
> author search "mark twain", unfortunately, there are such hits as: Mark
> Twain Memorial Association. The catalog isn't clairvoyant enough to guess
> whether the user wanted the person or the corporate name, at least not how
> we have the author search configured.
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> Jack
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> At 12:46 PM 6/13/2006, you wrote:
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> Actually, it's failing because it wasn't searched as "Twain, Mark".
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> -Ross.
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> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Ross Singer wrote:
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> > I will also bet that they won't understand why their author search fails
> > when they type "mark twain".
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> Jack Hall
> 114L University of Houston Libraries
> Houston, TX 77204-2000
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> e-mail: jhall_at_uh.edu
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Received on Tue Jun 13 2006 - 14:13:27 EDT