Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Fighting with the OPAC

Okay.  So you've heard IUCat is bad, right?

... c'mon.

If you haven't, then you've been leading a sheltered life of only keyword searches.

Well, IUCat and I have been fighting.

Because of recent events in my life, including the untimely death of my uncle in a motorcycle accident last week, I've been doing more of my internship project from the comfort of my room -- which means I don't have access to Workflows.  This /should/ be okay.  But it isn't.

The more work I do, the more I'm discovering that our OPAC just isn't cutting it, and this is for a /basic/ comparison project of items I know /should/ be in the catalog.  I know when I can't find /any/ volumes of a series that I'm in trouble.  I've tried Advanced Search, and some fancy boolean tricks to attempt to fish out the information, and while it manages to work about 65% of the time... that's just not good enough.

Maybe once we get the Blacklight search feature installed, it will be better.

... maybe?

... I can hope?

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