diff --git a/app/controllers/catalog_controller.rb b/app/controllers/catalog_controller.rb
index f2c2e9b..21b6199 100644
--- a/app/controllers/catalog_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/catalog_controller.rb
@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ class CatalogController < ApplicationController
     config.add_index_field 'title_vern_display', label: 'Title'
     config.add_index_field 'author_display', label: 'Author'
     config.add_index_field 'author_vern_display', label: 'Author'
+    config.add_index_field 'combine_author_field_whatever_we_want', label: 'Accessor Author', accessor: :display_combined_author
+    config.add_index_field 'linked_author_field', label: 'Helper Author', helper_method: :helper_method_demo, field: :author_display
     config.add_index_field 'format', label: 'Format'
     config.add_index_field 'language_facet', label: 'Language'
     config.add_index_field 'published_display', label: 'Published'
diff --git a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
index a2f4870..e7fd247 100644
--- a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 module ApplicationHelper
-
+  def helper_method_demo(document:,field:,value:,config:)
+    "#{document.first(:author_vern_display)} (#{link_to document.first(:author_display), search_action_url(q: document.first(:author_display), search_field: :author)})".html_safe
+  end
 end
diff --git a/app/models/solr_document.rb b/app/models/solr_document.rb
index 9b896f4..1668eaf 100644
--- a/app/models/solr_document.rb
+++ b/app/models/solr_document.rb
@@ -16,4 +16,8 @@ class SolrDocument
   # and Blacklight::Document::SemanticFields#to_semantic_values
   # Recommendation: Use field names from Dublin Core
   use_extension(Blacklight::Document::DublinCore)
+
+  def display_combined_author
+    "#{first(:author_vern_display)} (#{first(:author_display)})"
+  end
 end