[bksvol-discuss] Re: Is search not working at all?

  • From: Melissa Smith <mdsmith25@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:11:57 -0500

Jamie, I had a similar problem the other day. I was searching for Janis Cooke Newman. I put Cooke in the search field, and found nothing. Then, I searched for Janis and was able to find it without a problem. I'm not sure of other authors to try, but it appears that the search feature is very picky. I decided to go try a couple of searches using Janis Cooke Newman. Here are the results.

Janis: found
Cooke: didn't find
Janis Cooke: didn't find
Newman: found
Janis Newman: found
It appears that you have to use the first and/or last names only. This makes me wonder how picky it is about finding the title of books as well.

Melissa


Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote:
Hi Susan, yes that is the author. I don't have good luck searching with author full names, so I try to pick a unique part of the author's name on whcih to search. Maybe it was just having trouble when I tried.

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