Re: New subject keyword search

From: Robinson, Dan <drobinson_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:01:41 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Try a single word search.  Searching on 'dogs', the first item is "All dogs go to heaven (Motion picture: 1989)", the next item is the matching term "dogs". After terms starting with "dogs", the list continues with "Fashions for dogs", "Guide dogs", etc.

Dan Robinson
drobinson_at_hwwilson.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu]On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:26 PM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
> Subject: Re: New subject keyword search
>
>
> Intersetingly, the 'browse' list appears to me to include _only_ those
> headings that matched your query. It does not in fact include
> alphabetically adjacent headings that did not match your query. If I'm
> interpreting things right. It is instead an alphabetically
> arrange list
> of LCSH headings that matched your query.  Correct me if I'm wrong.
>
>
> Jonathan
>
> Ted P Gemberling wrote:
> > Martha Yee reported this week about a great development in subject
> > searching, spearheaded particularly by Sara Shatford Layne. See this
> > page from UCLA's Film & Television Archive:
> >
> > http://cinema.library.ucla.edu <http://cinema.library.ucla.edu/>
> >
> >
> >
> > If you select topic or genre/form search, you can enter any
> combination
> > of words in the search box, in any order. The great thing
> is that the
> > result is a subject browse screen rather than a list of
> "hits," as usual
> > for subject keyword searches. It draws from the
> authorities, not just
> > the forms of headings on bib records, so xrefs are searched, too.
>
>
Received on Wed Jul 25 2007 - 14:38:43 EDT