2.48.1 Field 1 Function Keys

2.48.2 Field 2 Initial Window: 1 character, mandatory

Purpose: To specify the initial search window when the user starts a session.

Format: It is any number that represents a window.

Table Values:

2 Main Catalog Search, Power
3 Main Catalog Search, Simple

2.48.3 Field 3 Change Search Windows: 1 character, multiple, mandatory

Purpose: To specify which OPAC Search Windows will be made available to your patrons via the OPAC push button function Change Search.

Format: It is any number that represents a window.

Table Values:

2 Main Catalog Search, Power
3 Main Catalog Search, Simple

2.48.4 Field 4 System Options: multiple, tab stop

Purpose: To determine OPAC behavior.

Format: It is a check box selection.

Menu Style: Radio Button/Check Box

Menu Values:
Allow Bibs without Items to be Displayed
Display MeSH before LC in OPAC
Display Author Notes in Author Selection
Don't Show Due Date to Patron in Details
Print via Saved Results Only
No Enhanced Subject Headings for Patrons
Allow Holds
Allow Renews
Allow MARC Bib Display
Kludge Analytic Linkage
Require Patron Login

Discussion:

Allow Bibs without Items to be Displayed controls whether a work is displayed to patrons if it has no items.

Display MeSH before LC sorts the subject headings by subject source. Since many MARC records contain both LC subject headings and MeSH, and their order is not predetermined, this option can force MeSH before LC in the OPAC selection display. This feature effects only the OPAC Holdings Selection Display.

Display Author Notes in Author Selection exposes the Author notes in the Author Authority database.

Don't Show Due Date to Patron in Details turns off the standard behavior of showing the due date to a patron in the OPAC's Detail window display.

Print via Saved Results Only disables printing from OPAC Details and Volume details, forcing the user to print via the Saved Results Function Print. This should conserve paper use, and promote effective electronic study habits since the patron may save to disk or e-mail the notes.

No Enhanced Subject Headings for Patrons disables Enhanced Subject Headings found under the Search By function for patrons only. Library staff will still have access to this function.

Allow Holds enables the Hold function in the Detail display.

Allow Renew enables the Renew function from Account.

Allow MARC Bib Display enables a MARC output in both the Details window and in the Saved Results output. If the OPAC user is a librarian, then this setting is ignored and the librarian may select MARC outputs. If enabled, then the Details window will have a Properties push button whereby the user may toggle between a card catalog display and a MARC display.

Kludge Analytic Linkage is applicable only to a few original Georgetown installations which did not interpret some old ambiguous documentation correctly and crossed up the Analytic Linkage. Analytic Linkage should be used so that an item belongs to the general bib but is linked to the distinctive bib. If this is not the case, then the OPAC cannot hyperlink the analytic linkage titles.

Require Patron Login forces the patron to login via the account and password window prior to using the OPAC. This option is typically used for private, secure libraries, such as a corporate library.

2.48.5 Field 5 Default Search Options:: multiple, tab stop

Purpose: to empower the search by selecting additional Search Properties.

Format: a choice is made from one or more check boxes.

Discussion:

Exact Word(s) restricts the search to finding works with all of the Search word(s). The software might convert the words from plural to singular, correct for diphthongs, and make a few other simple corrections to improve the search. This is referred to as normalization, or normalizing the search. A work must contain all of the words exactly, but not necessarily in order. For example, if the search is "low back pain", then any work with "low back pain" or "pain, low back" would find its way into the Search Results. Conversely, "lower back pain" would not qualify for Search Results.

If Exact Word(s) is deselected, then the software finds every word variation found in the database for each token in the Search. For example, given the terms "low back pain", the software will now find "lower" and "back" and "pain", "lower" and "backache" and "painful", etc.

1->Solution automatically skips intervening selection windows which contain a single entry, jumping ahead to the targeted solution. For example, given the search "HIV-2" used in the Subject Function, if only one subject contains "HIV-2", and "1->Solution" is not set, then the subject "HIV-2" is displayed to the user as a single subject. But, if "1->Solution" is turned on, then the user is spared making the single selection and the software races to the next step, thus saving time. Why deselect this feature? Sometimes it will bypass important intermediate information. For example, if searching by author for "Doe,J", and there is only one author with that name, then the author display is bypassed and all of the holdings are directly displayed. This is usually desirable, unless you wanted to see the author data.

Immediate Results searching forces a Search Result display as soon as a page worth of results are discovered. It's fast. Contrariwise, the search engine will find all occurrences prior to any Search Result display. With small databases, this feature does not matter. With large databases, this feature allows the user to see the most recent publications immediately, without waiting for a search to complete: this makes a big difference with complex searches. A side-effect of Immediate Results is that the Search Results will not display a total count.

Titles Search Skips Titles->Holdings is a Title Search Optimization. Typically, in authority searching (authors, title, subjects), the search engine first returns a list of matching terms, from which the user selects specific term(s) to display related holdings. The option Titles Search Skips Titles-> Holdings bypasses the term display and selection by assuming the user will want all of the titles, and simply displays the related holdings.

Menu Style: Radio Button/Check Box

Menu Values:
Exact Word(s)
1 Result->Solution
Immediate
Titles Search Skips Titles->Holdings

2.48.6 Field 6 Explode Properties: multiple, tab stop

Purpose: To tailor the properties of the Explode function, found in the Enhanced Subject Headings search results window. This effects hierarchical search vocabularies such as MeSH.

Format: It is a check box selection.

Discussion:

Up Tree allows the explode to go from a selected term towards the root of the term.

Include See Related will take the selected term's See Related terms into the explosion.

Menu Style: Radio Button/Check Box

Menu Values:
Include Ascending Terms
Include See Related Terms

Explode optionally includes the MeSH See Related (Also) terms for possible citations for the targeted term. Any related terms with citations are displayed with a multiple selection feature. Furthermore, Explode may gather the ascending terms toward the root term. Both of these options are determined by the Search Properties settings. Consider the term HIV in 1999 MeSH:

 Viruses 
  RNA Viruses 
   Retroviridae 
    Lentivirus 
     Lentiviruses, Primate 
      HIV 
       HIV-1 
       HIV-2 
 
 Viruses 
  Vertebrate Viruses 
   RNA Viruses 
    Retroviridae 
     Lentivirus 
      Lentiviruses, Primate 
       HIV 
        HIV-1 
        HIV-2 
  
 HIV's See related:  
 Receptors, HIV 
 Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors 
  

Another system's Explode might only take the targeted term HIV and its descendants HIV-1 and HIV-2. This system's Explode can optionally allow all of the ascendants:

Viruses

  RNA Viruses 
   Retroviridae 
    Lentivirus 
     Lentiviruses, Primate 
  
 Viruses 
  Vertebrate Viruses 
   RNA Viruses 
    Retroviridae 
     Lentivirus 
      Lentiviruses, Primate 
  

and can optionally include the two See Related terms

     Receptors, HIV 
     Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors 
  

for a powerful exploration of the literature.

2.48.7 Field 7 Selection Display Includes: multiple, tab stop

Purpose: To dynamically customize the Display Properties and the Saved Results Display.

Format: Toggle the collection of check boxes with a space bar or mouse click.

Menu Style: Radio Button/Check Box

Menu Values:
Author
Call Number
Subject Headings
Full Title
Latest Issue
Material Type(s)
Blank Line
Single Line
Number
Simple Title Bar
Same Size Windows

Discussion:

Author will display the name(s) of the author(s) on the Search Results.

Call Number forces a work's library call number to display in the Search Results Display.

Subject Headings shows all of a work's subject headings right in the Search Results Display, allowing more context for selection of a work.

Full Title bypasses the standard 72 character maximum that the Search Display utilizes, allowing more context for selection of a work.

Latest Issues includes a journal's most recent issue.

Material Types show all of a work's Material Types in the Search Results Display. If the work is simply text, the Material Type is not shown since text is the default. If the work is anything but text, or text and at least one additional form, then all of the material types are displayed.

Blank Line inserts an empty row between the bibliographic items in the search results. This Blank Line may make the display easier to read.

Single Line formats the Search Results into a single line display. Subject Headings, Full Title, Latest Issue, and Material Types cannot be shown in the single line display format. The author and title might be truncated, but the call number will not ( unless the call number is greater than the single line length).

Number Search Results displays a serial number next to a result's check box.

Simple Title Bar: the Search Results windows typically display the reason for the window in the window's title bar, e.g., " Search Results Keywords 'gout'. Page 1/5 hit=15". Some users prefer a simple title bar, with the search summation displayed in the body of the window, e.g., the title bar would display "Search Results" and the details "Keywords 'gout'. Page 1/5 hit=15" would be displayed in the window area.

Same Size Windows: forces all solo (a.k.a. parent) windows to have the same height.