RE: Problem using "has" as condition in Create Lists boolean search c riteria

["West, Barbara - HPL" <Barbara.West@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I suspect your failure in the case of practice of law united states and
civil procedure united states was because united states appears in subfield
z.  That probably made the phrase search invalid. Try an "and" search:
subject has practice of law and subject has united states

I tried it and I did get results this way.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sandra Dawson [mailto:sdawson@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 4:02 PM
To: 'innopac@xxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Problem using "has" as condition in Create Lists boolean search
c riteria


Our Refrence Librarian was trying to create a bibliography for a course to
be given in the coming semester. She was running a create lists search using
the search parameters of Bibliographic record field "d" subject HAS and then
the relevant LC subject headings appropriate for the class (ie practice of
law united states) and getting zero hits- not a single record was picked up
by the search!  We checked the authority records to make sure that the
subject headings she was using were good and they were (for example we show
163 titles with the subject heading of practice of law united states in our
catalog).  So, we tried again thinking case sensitivity and/or spacing might
be the problem (even though using the condition has should allow it to hit
on any instance of the given language) and still nothing.  We gave it a try
on the generic subject heading of "civil procedure"- this search seemed to
work properly, lots of records coming up.  I ran the same search again,
narrowing it as "civil procedure united states"  again got the search result
of zero records.  Finally, I searched using the condition equals and the
exact case and spacing shown in the subject marc field (ie Practice of law
-- United States) and got the accurate result of 163 records.
So for now, our Refrence Librarian is going to generate the bibliography
using that far more tedious approach.
Does anyone know what is going on with this? Has anyone else encountered the
same problem?  I know we used to run this very same type of search using has
and it worked fine.

Sandra Dawson
Database Administrator/ Cataloging Assistant
Thomas Jefferson School of Law Library

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