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Hello colleagues- I'd rather being swimming in a pond..or eating an ice cream cone while strolling across Harvard Yard (wait-I just did that....)but instead I am writing to you all to alert you all to a searching problem we have unearthed on the Avery on CSA platform, and to see if any of you have already experienced this and/or contacted CSA. It involves searching names with diacritics-the most useful example being Fritz Höger. A search of the subject/artist field for this name, without any diacritics, brings back 0 records. A search of his project "chilehaus" brings back records, and clicking on the subject heading for the artist results in the 28 records on this artist. A "browse index" search also does not result in locating this artist. If you cut and paste the name with diacritics you will get to records...but I just tried copying from another webpage with diacritics and got nothing! I don't know about you all, but I can't think of a single other database that requires that users enter the diacritics to get search results! I have alerted CSA, and did check with Ted Goodman to see if he knew whether this was a problem across platform. It seems to be limited to CSA. I did write to CSA before about what I realize was a similar problem with an author search (Hélène Lipstadt). Still no response from CSA in terms of how and when they plan to address this problem. I have tried this search in BHA on CSA with no problems-I get search results without having to put in the diacritics. So it seems a special problem related to the Avery index. I am loath to consider a change of interface...but I think this is a serious flaw that needs to be addressed promptly..and maybe some more grumbling from the library community might motivate them to address this issue. I'd welcome any comments/summary of experiences, and would be happy to summarize to the list. I remember seeing some messages summarizing some of the issues using Avery on the different platforms, and this might be a useful addition, if this list is still being compiled. On a related note I have been unable to resurrect either an Architecture section listserv or the AASL listserv. Anyone know what's up with those? Cheers.... Sarah Sarah W. Dickinson Head of Reference and Collection Development Frances Loeb Library Harvard Graduate School of Design 48 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-2574 phone 617-496-5929 fax www.gsd.harvard.edu/loeb_library/ __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]