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

Thu Jan 9 09:19:35 PST 2020

Hey all,

We use the "Available in the library" facet in lieu of using a dedicated
physical item search. We like to use it as a way of introducing facets to
students who may not have used them in a scholarly setting before.

Naoko, regarding your comment about having to re-apply the facet every time
the search is modified, remember that you can lock a filter into place by
hovering over the left-most part of the label in the "Active filters"
listing:

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This will allow you to change the search query and execute new searches
without having to re-activate that filter.

-Dan

On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 1:40 PM Yasuda, Naoko <nyasuda at highline.edu> wrote:

> I am curious, do people strongly prefer having a custom scope for physical
> item search to using the filter "Available in the library" after the
> initial search? Our librarians seem to be ok with using the filter although
> it's a bit annoying we have to re-apply the filter every time the search is
> modified. I can see custom scopes are useful for targeted audiences, maybe
> to be used in a widget or for some kind of automated feed. I haven't
> configured any custom scope because no one has asked me for one, but I'd
> love to play with the configuration.
>
> Naoko
> Highline College
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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> *From:* Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu> *On Behalf Of *Traci
> Taylor
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> Wade,
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> Would this custom scope include videos and other physical items in the
> library?
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> Thanks,
> Traci
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> Traci,
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> The scope being used for that search is ‘MyInstitution’
> (&search_scope=MyInstitution in the URL)
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> That scope includes all title records in Alma. Doesn’t matter the format
> (book, journal, etc).
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> Basically,
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> MyInstitution scope = titles-only search
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> Everything scope = titles + articles
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> 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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> Wade Guidry
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> You might just want to rename the facet.
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> We don't have a "Books & ebooks" facet at all.  We have the following
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> Library Catalog
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> Everything
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> Articles and eResources
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> Course Reserves
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> I just did the same search and got the same results.
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> 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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Dan Moore
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