[bksvol-discuss] Re: New Bookshare site grumblings

Hi,
It is, and yes I did send a report back during beta testing. I also did a follow up so it wouldn't be forgotten. 

Dave

At 11:03 PM 1/21/2009, you wrote:
If it's messing up authors' names, this definitely needs to be reported. Some authors write with different variations of their names like Angela Hunt and Angela Elwell Hunt. 

Monica Willyard
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker

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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Laura Ann 
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:41 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: New Bookshare site grumblings

I found today when doing a search for Harry Kraus
that just 2 hits came up for 2 books
when doing a search for kraus the other books in the system came up on the search. 

the name was
Harry Lee kraus Jr.
So it doesn't find all books with Harry and Kraus if you do a search unless you just search by last name. 
Strange.
Laura Ann
At 02:16 PM 1/21/2009, you wrote:
Misha, I feel the same way you do about the lack of comfirmation when uploading a book and about the lack of renewal notices. From what Pavi has said earlier this week, I think the engineers are aware that these things aren't running smoothly. I expect to see some sort of feature repair/enhancement release in a couple of weeks to a month. I'm not on the staff, so this is just a guess from observing how the beta cycle went. I haven't run into the strict search scheme yet, probably because I tend to search for one word or by an author's last name most of the time. It would be frustrating to put in two words in a title and not get any results. Have you written to Bookshare about this? They may not address it right away since there are other issues to fix first, but they might appreciate the feedback for their work down the road. 
Monica Willyard
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