Pass-Through Searching


last updated February 12, 2008

Transferring a search from local to union catalog

INN-Reach software allows pass-through searching from the local catalog to Summit, the union catalog.  When the search is transferred from the local to the union catalog, Limits are usually retained. Limiting by Date, Language, and Material Type will be retained in a pass-through search. Limiting by a local location will not be retained. Limiting by Publisher doesn’t work. Scopes are not retained (pre-limiting to a set of records, such as a local location, or type of material).

Transfer from Index Browse display: transfers the word or phrase to the union catalog, along with some limits (date and material type, for example, are retained with the transferred search).  Index browse: more than one entry (or “catalog record”) retrieved for the same word or phrase.)

Transfer from Record Browse display: transfers the word or phrase to the union catalog along with some (not all) limits. Record browse: all the entries (or “catalog records” that match the index entry)

Transfer from a single record: the system finds that specific, individual record in Summit.  It does not “step back” to search for the word or phrase used initially in the local catalog.

See example of a Title search moving from Index Browse, to Record Browse, and finally selecting a single record.

Button Designs at Local Sites

Local sites have the option to customize the design of their pass-through button. Below, you'll find examples of the wide variety of buttons used in Alliance member library catalogs.

Clark

  Reed

COCC

see OSU   SMU see TESC
CWU   SOU
EOU   SPU
EWU   SU
GFU   TESC
LCC   UO
L&C   UP
Linfield   UPS
Marylhurst   UW
MHCC   UW-Law
OHSU   Whitman
OIT   WOU
OSU   WSU
Pacific   WU
PCC   Walla Walla Univ.
PSU   WU

  

Index Browse

Index Browse display: Browsing through the different index entries, or titles.  Some titles may have more than one entry, or catalog record. Notice that there are 6 entries for the title Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 2 entries for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Spanish; 5 entries for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, etc.

 

Line Callout 2: selected title:
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
:

 

Record Browse

Record Browse display: browsing the individual entries, or catalog records. Select a line with multiple entries for the same index word or phrase, and you get the Record Browse display

 

Record display

Select a single record (line 2 above, for example, 2000 edition with illustrations by Mary Grandpre)


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