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17 hours 10 minutes ago #1935 by traci.timmons
I have a patron who no longer wants to receive books about a particular famous person, let's say "Frank Sinatra." In her preferences, I could exclude our subject/interest codes--"Biography," "Entertainment and celebrity biography,"  "Memoirs and autobiography," "Music," and maybe even "Television and movies"--but she's not going to get a great deal of books that she does want. I can exclude him as an author, but most of the books about him are written by others-- and those authors have written about other people and things besides Sinatra that she might want. If we were using LC Subject Headings, I might be able to exclude "Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998...," but we can't exclude by LCSHs, right? Do others have [easily implemented] ideas about how one keeps things like this out of a patron's queue? Thank you!

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15 hours 8 minutes ago #1936 by patrick20k
You are correct that you can only exclude by the Subject Headings (the ones displayed on the TitleBib tab), not other subjects that might be in the MARC record (such as LCSHs).

Your best bet is to do a book search for all the non-fiction books with LC Subject "Frank Sinatra" (or Annotation keyword "Frank Sinatra") and mark all the results as HasHads.

Of course, that does nothing to block the new books coming in, but if you use the Reader Services Queue, you could add an RSQueue Reason on the patron's Profile tab to go back and check again in a couple months.

Does anyone else have a strategy they've used?
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