[IUG] WebOPAC Refinements

["Riesner, Giles" <GRIESNER at ccbcmd dot edu>]

My boss is looking at re-configuring our website and also how people
find things within our catalog and wondered about a couple  of things:

First:
In the Author index if you type in  Donald Norman  as author, it comes
back with a message saying
                    Your entry  Donald Norman  would be here   --
Change search to  Norman, Donald  (link)
Yet if you include a middle initial e.g.  Donald A. Norman , the message
is only  the "your entry would be here" part.
Is there any way to have it make the suggestion to reverse the name in
both instances?

Also, on a related note, searching by Course Professor even without a
middle initial ALWAYS brings up just the
            "Your entry would be here" message with no suggestions.  
It would be good to have it behave the same way as  Donald Norman above
as well.

Where is any of it controlled?  I couldn't find it in the  manual.  Is
it something that III has to do for us?

Second:
She wonders about the possibility of when you select Author or Course by
Professor  using a drop-down menu  having a pop-up
come up saying:  Type Last Name First    Any thoughts on how doable this
might be?

Thanks .

--Giles

Giles W. Riesner Jr. 
Library Tech Support & Library System Manager
Community College of Baltimore Co.- Catonsville
800 S. Rolling Road
Baltimore, MD 21228  USA
Phone: 1-410-455-4245
Email:  griesner at ccbcmd dot edu





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