Is it just me, or has anyone else been stymied in trying to use the Course Reserve catalog by the lack of keyword searching? At Vet, the students usually come in looking for the "ophthalmology CD" or the "small animal radiology text." They don't know the exact title of the item, they may not know the course number, and their courses are co-taught so they don't know which instructors actually got entered into our database. In any case, I don't want to have to play twenty questions with a student before I can find the ophthalmology CD in the catalog!
There IS a "back door" way to do keyword searching on the course reserves database, actually:
-Go to MNCAT
-Click on Twin Cities Course Reserves
-Hit the back button on the browser, going back to the MNCAT main search page
-Click the "Advanced" search button
This takes you to an advanced search interface page, but you are searching only the TC Course Reserves catalog dataset. It's an inadvertant page, but it's been the most useful search page for the reserves catalog, for me (when I can remember the trick to get to it...).
Who is "in charge" of the Course Reserves catalog presentation? Janet Arth and the OPAC committee, or someone in IADS? I'd like to know who to address a suggestion to.
-Kevin
-Kevin
The FAO Stat 2001 CD-ROM that has resided on one of the Magrath reference CD machines has never worked, apparently due to an incompatibility with the Fortress software used to protect those terminals. Thanks to Eric Forbis, we now have a circulating copy of this CD-ROM. The original will be remounted on one of our CD-ROM terminals. Amy West in Gov Pubs said that we are within our licensing rights to do this. Apparently some researchers cannot simply use the FAO website because it will not allow downloads of very huge quantities of data.
Linda