Hi all, We were talking this morning about the possibility of creating a children's search scope in the catalog and were wondering if anyone has ever built a search scope like this or might have ideas on how we could do so. I know there is a current development project for a kids catalog that might incorporate scoping for children's materials, but we were wondering if there were ways to incorporate this scope into the existing catalog.
Some ideas we considered include: Creating an org unit type called collections that would be a child of the branch where we could add a children's collection. Items would be added at the collections level and users would be added at the branch level. However, the big drawback to this method is when capturing holds, you would need to put items into transit when you are essentially filling a hold that will be picked up in the same building. Is there any way stop an item from going into transit if we were using this kind of setup? Another idea was to group shelving locations together into a search scope. However, you cannot incorporate shelving locations into a URL to create a search scope the way you can with an org unit. If we could, this approach might be workable Are there other ways we might be able to do this? I know there are limiters for audience and shelving location on the advanced search page, but the audience limiters are looking at MARC codes, which don't necessarily reflect where the item is shelved. Selecting multiple shelving locations to cover the entire children's collection is probably not ideal from a user standpoint, which is why we were exploring the idea of incorporating those parameters into a URL to create the search scope. Thanks in advance for your ideas! Kathy Lussier ------------------------------------------------------------- Kathy Lussier Project Coordinator Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (508) 756-0172 (508) 755-3721 (fax) [email protected] IM: kmlussier (AOL & Yahoo) Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
