[Wactclc-alma] [EXTERNAL*]-Re: Noticing Books and eBooks returns other item types

Wed Jan 8 12:29:28 PST 2020

Agreed. Our librarians wanted to be able to search only physical items in the catalog and so I created a custom scope for physical items with a location in our two campuses and I called that scope “In the Library.” We are still deciding whether we want to change that physical location scope to be our “Library Catalog” because that’s how everyone traditionally understood our catalog to be. Of course, then it wouldn’t include ebooks.

It certainly is more complicated than our old Millennium days…

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There are ways to configure the custom scope to really zero in on a certain part, or parts, of your collection. As Wade shows, for just books you use conditions to limit by resource type=book. I’m less sure on the need for two layers of available physical=exists, but maybe that helps accuracy.

I have found that you can get very granular and specific with your local collection. It is more difficult (at least it has been for me) to get accurate when working with the “everything” scope.

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Wade,

Would this custom scope include videos and other physical items in the library?

Thanks,
Traci

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Traci,

The scope being used for that search is ‘MyInstitution’ (&search_scope=MyInstitution in the URL)

That scope includes all title records in Alma. Doesn’t matter the format (book, journal, etc).

Basically,

MyInstitution scope = titles-only search
Everything scope = titles + articles

If you want a books-only search, you need to set up a custom local scope based on resource type, something like the following, and then assign it to a search profile and slot:

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You might just want to rename the facet.

We don't have a "Books & ebooks" facet at all.  We have the following names for our facets:

Library Catalog
Everything
Articles and eResources
Course Reserves

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Seattle Colleges
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I just did the same search and got the same results.

Traci

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Hey all, has anyone seen an issue like this? I search for books and eBooks in the drop-down, and get journals and other resource types returned. I have to click a second time to limit to books using the Resource Type facet. This obviously is annoying and potentially confusing to the general user. Why not just disable these specific searches if they aren’t accurately doing what they say they should do?

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