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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/