[539] in ad-lib
Re: another training issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ninadm@MIT.EDU)
Thu May 4 10:54:09 1995
From: ninadm@MIT.EDU
To: Patricia Flanagan <patf@MIT.EDU>, opac-lib@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 May 1995 15:56:33 EDT."
<9505031956.AA15796@rotch-ref-1.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 10:53:38 EDT
I think that what Pat says is essentially correct. But there is a way
around this: you can use the "Review search" option and return to
previous title lists you've "collected."
Look at it this way: once you use "extend search" and select an item,
you can use "Review search" to see the things you've collected along
the way.
If you select "New search" your parameter changes stay with you, but
you lose all the items you "collected."
If you select "Reset" you lose your parameter changes *and* your
"collected" titles.
Does that make it better or worse?
Nina
>
> Carol and I attempted to demonstrate the automatic select and view
> option in opac parameters today. It didn't work very well, but we
> suggested that this was the way to go along marking items so that you
> could print them or sort them later for a bibliography. I thought I
> would come back and create a sample search to demonstrate this, since it
> didn't work too well for us in training.
>
> Does anyone know how this works? I know that you can't return to a new
> search or you lose the items you've "collected." But, worse than that,
> I went along extending my search and "collecting" items, only to have
> none when I asked the system to sort them for me. It just sorted the
> current list of titles I was in. Am I completely dense or does this
> just not work?
>
> With a furrowed brow...
>
> Pat
