> Interesting -- I was thinking recommendations from your actual local
> corpus, but from Identities/Terminologies might be even better -- but is
> there any way for the system to pre-warn you whether that particular
> Author or Term is actually found in the local corpus, to prevent you
> from clicking on it and getting 0 hits?
I'm not aware of a good way to avoid the zero hits situation -- but a "0 hits" page doesn't need to be the end of the search -- if you incorporate good recommendations (i.e. links to WorldCat or various electronic resources) into your empty results screen, the user still may be able to benefit from the recommendations even if they don't find materials in the local catalog.
- Demian
Received on Wed Apr 28 2010 - 15:09:28 EDT