Re: Webopac capitalization of acronyms

[Elizabeth Thomsen <et@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We did read the documentation, and are still confused.  In the
discussion of browse displays, R.2000 record 1,880, we find the
following:
 
"The headings from the index are displayed in alphabetical order. 
INNOPAC removes all punctuation marks and capitalizes the first letter
of each word."

No mention of an option.  We do see  the following option:

"Browse list: show field instead of normalized entry. For indexes:"

...but our understanding was that this only worked for call numbers,
since the manual includes the following note:

"Note that this option only applies to call number index tags and may
not be applied to any other index tags, e.g., 'a' (author), 't' (title),
or 'd' (subject)."

Is there another option that lets you display other indexes in heading
form?

-- 
Elizabeth Thomsen, Member Services Manager
NOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange
Danvers MA 01923
et@xxxxxxxxxx

Howard Pasternack wrote:
> 
> Both the web and telnet based opacs provide options to use the form as in
> the record rather than the normalized form.  For the subject index, the
> results can be bizarre, since the rotating will cease displaying, but the
> alphabetization will remain in rotated form.  Check the documentation!
> 
> -- Howard
> 
> At 12:53 PM 6/26/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >Unfortunately, all the browse index heading displays are of the
> >normalized headings, stripped of all punctuation and capitalization,
> >with the first letter of each word capitalized.  The headings themselves
> >display correctly within the bib records.
> >
> >This is one of the things that we like the least about the catalog.  The
> >loss of appropriate capitalization results in confusing and odd
> >displays-- things like "Henry Iv," which just doesn't look like "Henry
> >the Fourth."  Names with dates and qualifiers, and subject headings with
> >qualifiers in parentheses and lots of subdivisions also get really
> >mangled.  We like our rotated subject headings, but really wish we had
> >some subdivider symbol separating the segments.  It's really hard to
> >look at these screens and mentally parse them out correctly.
> >
> >--
> >Elizabeth Thomsen, Member Services Manager
> >NOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange
> >Danvers MA 01923
> >et@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> >Dianne Schaefer wrote:
> > >
> > > Good afternoon,
> > >
> > > Has any institution determined how to get acronyms without any
> > > punctuation or spaces to display in webopac browse screens as all
> > > capitals? As an example, we would like to have "DSM IV" as the display
> > > rather than "Dsm Iv". If there are periods between the letters, then
> > > they would all be capitalized, but we would like to not change the
> > > bibliographic record if we can avoid it.  I cannot seem to find any
> > > hints in either system options or wwwoptions, which would seem to be the
> > > most appropriate places, but I may have missed it.
> > >
> > > Any ideas would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Dianne Schaefer
> > > --
> > > Dianne Schaefer
> > > Systems Librarian
> > > Social Law Library
> > > 1200 Court House
> > > Boston, MA  02108
> > > Phone: (617) 523-0018, ext. 318
> > > Fax:   (617) 523-2458
> > >
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