Changing the Searching Environment for Your Library

You can change the searching environment for your Library. You do this by changing the search profile or by adding a new profile. By changing or adding a profile, you can change these things about your Library’s searching environment:

The profile information that the system uses to access a location and its searching environment.
The library name that displays on searching pages.
The profile settings and options that are available (for example, browse scoping, borrower authentication, self-registration, and search results deduping).
The set of tabs (or tabset) that displays at the top of the searching environment. (The tabset determines which Information Portal pages users and staff can access from this environment.)
The indexes that are available to search.
The limiting options available, including pre-defined and user-defined limits.
The sort options available for sorting search results.
Whether a location is a reserve location (if you have Reserve Bookroom).
Whether broadcast searching (Z39.50 or Consolidated Searching) is available.
What variables files this searching environment uses.
What search options (phrase, adjacency, and proximity) Information Portal displays on the Power Search page.
What IP addresses are considered internal addresses.
What external links are available.

After you add or change a new search profile, you can make that profile available to your staff or users. You can also set up one profile and copy its settings over to other profiles. If necessary, you can delete a profile that you are no longer using.

You can use an alternate profile that complies with ADA Priority 1 guidelines for web content accessibility. (For more information, see Displaying ADA-Compliant Search Windows.)

This section explains these topics:

 


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