[bksvol-discuss] Re: Children books in quie

  • From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:30:17 -0600

Except the first name I went to look for was Judd, and there were 835 results 
with no way to advance more than 25 at a time.  Definitely not efficient...

W's we re even worse at over 1600!

Valerie


On Jan 16, 2010, at 7:21 AM, Melissa Smith wrote:

> Jamie, there is definitely still a place to browse by author. Below is a link 
> to the browse page, where you can choose to browse by any of the following 
> topics:
> Authors
> Categories
> Languages
> New Books
> Most Popular Downloads
> NIMAC Books
> Special Collections
> Newspapers and Magazines
> Internationally Available.
> http://www.bookshare.org/browse/start
> Once you have selected author from this list, you should be taken to a page 
> where you can select the first letter of the author's last name, which, then, 
> takes you to the alphabetical listing of author's whose last name begins with 
> that letter. BTW, there appears to be no Tina Gallo. There is a Donald R 
> Gallo, with 2 books in the collection.
> 
> 
> Melissa
> 
> 
> 
> Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote:
>> Judy, I didn't orginally start out putting Tina Gallo in the author box. I 
>> started out with Gallo, because if she uses a second last name or a middle 
>> initial, I wouldn't necessary get her with just Tina Gallo. Katherine 
>> Applegate is a good example of this. If you put Katherine Applegate in the 
>> author box you get only 30 results and Bookshare has way more of her books 
>> than that, maybe under Katherine A. Applegate or K.A. Applegate. That's why 
>> I like a least restrictive search term that will get me results but not too 
>> many results. If you're too specific you miss out. If I just put in Tina 
>> Gallo I get less results, but I can't be sure there aren't any Tina Gallo 
>> books in the collection because I am unfamiliar with this author and don't 
>> know if she writes under other forms of her name. That's why I originally 
>> did what I always do and just searched for Gallo.
>> I wonder can you still go to an author alphabetical list page? I haven't 
>> tried that for years.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jamie in Michigan
>> 
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