Defining Leading Articles

The Initial Articles policy table specifies words that can be stripped from the beginning of Find Tool exact match search strings for the following types of records:

• Authority Records (Heading, Tracing/Reference)
• Bibliographic Records (Title and Series)
• Check In Records (Title)
• Claims (Title) (both for Acquisitions and Serial versions)
• Course Reserve Records (Title)
• Hold Requests (Title)
• ILL Requests (Title)
• Invoice Line Items (Title)
• Issue Records (Title)
• Item Records (Title and Series)
• Part Records (Title)
• Purchase Order Line Items (Title)
• Reserve Item Records (Title)
• Route Lists (Title)
• Selection List Line Items (Title)
• Serial Holdings Records (Title)
• Subscription Records (Title)

If the Use Initial Articles Table option is checked on the Find Tool Settings tab, the words specified in the table are stripped from the beginning of the search string. (You can specify a default setting for this Find Tool option. See Setting Find Tool Profiles.)

Initial articles can be identified from the system, library, and branch levels, but the entries are shared by all organizations because searching applies to the entire Polaris catalog. Use the Administration Explorer to access the Initial Articles policy table. You cannot display the table from an organization workform. The Modify initial articles table: Allow permission is required to work with this table.

See also:

• Add an initial article entry