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ISSUE: ISSN/ISBN Searching
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Celeste )
Fri Feb 24 14:29:24 1995
To: ad-cat@MIT.EDU
Cc: steps@MIT.EDU, rschmidt@MIT.EDU, rchall@MIT.EDU, hkennett@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 95 14:28:41
From: efc@MIT.EDU (Eric Celeste )
Check it out! ISSN/ISBN searches don't work on Advance! Has anyone
retrieved a record using one of these indexes?
The problem appears to be that the index was built with bogus local control
numbers. Indexes work by linking a given search key (like, say, ISBN) with
the appropriate record numbers (like, say, the record that represents a
title with that ISBN). So, if bib #10388977 is "Ender's game" and has ISBN
0312932081, then an "I=0312932081" search should pull up "Ender's game".
Not in our first GMA! The search "I=0312932081" instead tries to pull up
bib #388977, which does not exist. In other words, every ISBN/ISSN search
pulls up a blank screen. It looks to me like the index was built without
the leading "10" that belongs on _every_ local control number in the
Advance system.
Ooops.
...Eric
Eric Celeste / MIT Libraries / 14E-210A / 617-253-0633 / efc@mit.edu
