[784] in ad-lib
Re: series help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Margo M. Miller)
Wed Jun 7 10:01:41 1995
To: patf@MIT.EDU
Cc: opac-lib@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 07 Jun 1995 09:32:07 -0400.
<9506071332.AA06185@lauren.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 10:01:15 EDT
From: "Margo M. Miller" <mmmiller@MIT.EDU>
Thanks for your comments. Here's my part of the reply--Jennie may be
able to add some clarification:
Unless I got mixed up again, I thought that a w= search with
keyword(s) _and_ the volume number might retrieve too many records
because the number would come from all the fields, whereas putting the
number into a nw=search would narrow it down. Jennie and I were
concerned that limiting a search to sew= can exclude titles. For
example, Annual review of psychology does not show up in any kind of
series search, only a title search. That's a cataloging issue, but I
would prefer to have the user obtain a larger set and narrow it down
than to go away with no hits because of an overspecific search 3m.
Margo M. Miller
Room 14S-134 MIT Engineering and Science Libraries 617-253-6755
