Hi Everyone

Some of you will be aware that there have been problems with keyword searches in the Catalogue. This began late April when we reached bib# 2,000,000. Not that we have even half that number of actual records, but as the bib# is never reused it keeps increasing. We didn’t immediately realize that that magic number had anything to do with our problems, but major manipulations of our test catalogue let us confirm this. Romy then found some old SirsiDynix documents mentioning this and including a ‘fix’. With SirsiDynix’s agreement, we put that in place. It did not help.

We continue to work with SirsiDynix on this. The bulk of records are correctly indexed, but some are not, and these are likely to be more recent records. In addition, if the search process stops (which it can do) we can’t just restart it. We have to rebuild the indexes from scratch which takes a couple of hours. Fortunately, this is not a common happening.

None of this affects Multisearch, but Multisearch will always be a day or more behind in its indexing.

We’ll keep you informed as we make progress.

Peter K