1 Bib record browser with linked authorities
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4 This feature provides a patron-oriented OPAC interface for browsing
7 Users choose to browse by Author, Title, Subject, or Series. They then
8 enter a browse term, and the nearest match from a left-anchored search
9 on the headings extracted for browse purposes will be displayed in a
10 typical backwards/forwards paging display. Headings link to search
11 results pages showing the related records. If the browse heading is
12 linked to any authority records, and if any *other* authority records
13 point to those with "See also" or other non-main entry headings, those
14 alternative headings are displayed a linked to a search results page
15 showing related bib records related to the alternate heading.
17 The counts of holdings displayed next to headings from bibliographic
18 records are subject to the same visiibility tests as search. This means
19 that the org unit (and copy location group) dropdown on the browse
20 interface affects counds, and it further means that whether or not
21 you're looking at the browse interface through the staff client makes a
24 Configuration considerations for site administrators
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26 There are two off-by-default features that site administrators may wish
29 * Quick paging links: By adding a value for the org unit setting
30 ''opac.browse.pager_shortcuts'' , you can make shortcut browsing
31 links such as ''0-9 A B C D ...'' appear between the Back and Next
32 buttons on the browse page. The set of shortcuts should be chosen
33 based on the languages in use at your site, but a reasonable value
34 for English might be the string "*0-9*ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ",
35 which will yield a link for 0-9 and one for each letter A-Z. The
36 use of asterisks in the string group a shortcut whose label is more
37 than a single letter in length. Such longer shortcuts have the multi-
38 character string for the shortcut label, and the link just goes to the
39 first heading matching the first character of the label. The letters
40 not enclosed in asterisks just lead to individual letter shortcuts.
43 * There is a global flag by the name
44 ''opac.browse.warnable_regexp_per_class'' to control what leading
45 articles in users' entered browse terms trigger a warning about how
46 it might be better to search for "Rolling Stones" instead of "The
47 Rolling Stones" (or whatever). This is off by default, but can be
48 enabled if it suits your catalog, and can even be customized per
49 search class (author, title, series, subject).
51 Also, by default, authors are indexed for browse in such a way that
52 relator roles like "creator" are dropped off the end of their headings.
53 This was an aesthetic choice. If a site wanted to display those kinds
54 of terms, they would update the 'config.metabib_field' table in
55 the database, setting 'browse_xpath' to NULL where 'field_class' =
56 ''author'' and 'browse_field' is true.