[485] in ad-lib
Re: how many databases?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Grant Young )
Mon May 1 12:51:32 1995
To: bookworm@MIT.EDU
Cc: opac-lib@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 1 May 95 12:50:18
From: gyoung@MIT.EDU (Grant Young )
Hate to be a nudge, but... There's only one database. More information is
needed about how you got in. What sign-on was used is particularly
important. Each user has a unique 'port record' for searching the
catalogue.
One of the settings has to do with whether you get to a title list directly
or a headings browse list depending on how many hits you get. For example,
when I log in as myself and do the search I get 22 titles and the first
seven or so display. Only when I pull one do I see that it's in the
Lecture Notes in Mathematics series. If I log in opac/opac95 then I get
put into the series headings list where I have to select one of the
headings to get to the title display.
The port record also determines which search screen you use. There can be
bugs in how the search screen is setup. It could say, for example, author
search and actually be doing a keyword search. The Simple search screen
used by the Circ people seems to have a bunch of bugs like this. The staff
screen and the standard Barton screen the OPAC group seem to be better
worked through.
Eventually, I believe that the opac/opac95 signon will be the "standard"
model. We'll change it slightly for different locations but its parameters
will be the rule.
I know its a pain in the neck to keep track of all of this but it's
critical to have the full story when something like this crops us.
-- Grant
